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Lucy Dunn

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Will Ireland’s fed-up voters punish the Taoiseach in the snap election?

Will the elections taking place across Ireland today result in a whole new government? Not really, is the conclusion most Irish citizens seem to be...

29.11.2024 10

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Now the SNP must prove it can govern

In the history of devolution, no Westminster government has ever given Scotland as large a block grant settlement as the one announced by Labour on...

31.10.2024 6

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Robert Jenrick must do more

When Kemi Badenoch took to the floor during GB News’s TV Q&A on Thursday evening, the atmosphere in the room climbed a notch. Robert Jenrick had...

18.10.2024 7

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This is a ten-year plan, says Labour health minister

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has made a lot of noise about the perilous state of the NHS, insisting the institution must ‘reform or...

23.09.2024 6

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Stop calling us ‘junior’, demand doctors

Junior doctors made headlines this week after begrudgingly accepted the government’s pay deal. Two thirds of British Medical Association (BMA)...

18.09.2024 10

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Will Priti Patel’s ‘unity’ pitch succeed?

Priti Patel’s Tory leadership launch in Westminster this afternoon was an upbeat affair, featuring mango lassi and a tonne of merchandise. With...

30.08.2024 8

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Scotland’s poorest students are being failed by the SNP

Scotland’s exam results day has been something of a disaster this year. An already stressful time for anxious pupils has been made worse after...

06.08.2024 4

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Is Robert Jenrick emerging as a leadership frontrunner?

Robert Jenrick chose a swelteringly hot day in sunny Newark to stage his official leadership campaign launch. ‘I’m in politics for you,’ he told...

02.08.2024 9

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Will Starmer’s thug crackdown get results?

When Sir Keir Starmer arrived in Southport on Tuesday to pay his respects for the victims of the stabbing tragedy, he was heckled by locals. ‘How...

01.08.2024 4

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England’s GPs vote to take industrial action

Just days after junior doctors in England were offered a cumulative pay rise of 22 per cent, general practitioners across the country have voted in...

01.08.2024 10

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Will Labour give in to Sinn Féin’s demands?

It’s not often that Irish republican party Sinn Féin hosts events in London, but the group included the UK capital in its post-election victory lap...

21.07.2024 10

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Every bill announced in Labour’s King’s Speech

King Charles has now finished taking part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The purpose of today’s King’s Speech...

17.07.2024 7

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Vaughan Gething gone after just 118 days

It’s been a turbulent morning in Wales. First, four ministers from the Labour group quit over growing frustration at their scandal-ridden party...

16.07.2024 5

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Sunday shows round-up: Farage insists racism row canvasser an ‘actor’

Nigel Farage: racism row canvasser is an ‘actor’ It’s been a tricky few days for Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage after one of his party’s...

30.06.2024 8

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How Scottish Starmerites are wooing urban voters

Will Scotland’s central belt turn red? The last eighteen months of SNP chaos, from police probes to iPad scandals, coupled with an intense distrust...

29.06.2024 10

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Will the SNP manifesto win back disillusioned voters?

‘Is the biggest problem for the SNP at this election,’ a Times journalist quizzed Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney this morning, ‘a...

19.06.2024 7

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‘For the first time ever I might not vote’: East Renfrewshire’s voters are switching off 

The SNP has dominated Scotland since 2015. In an election held just months after the independence referendum, the country turned almost entirely...

16.06.2024 50

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Alex Salmond’s Alba party isn’t serious about the general election

In the second-floor room of a building on Tufton Street, Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond delivered a press conference this afternoon...

05.06.2024 10

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Inside Scotland’s Post Office scandal

For victims of the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, this week is an important one. Paula Vennells, former chief executive of...

20.05.2024 50

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Fergus Ewing: How Kate Forbes can save the SNP

Following Humza Yousaf’s resignation as First Minister, a fresh leadership contest could soon be on the cards. His would-be successors face an...

30.04.2024 10

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SNP ditch Greens as Bute House Agreement breaks down

If Humza Yousaf last week suffered his ‘worst week’ in office, then the same can be said this week for Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the...

25.04.2024 8

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Is Rishi Sunak facing a Scottish rebellion?

The Chancellor will be anxiously preparing himself this evening for tomorrow’s papers, waiting to see how his Budget lands. He won’t need to wait...

06.03.2024 20

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Health Summit / Is the NHS badly run?

You don’t often hear calls for more managers to solve the crisis in the NHS. But at The Spectator’s Health Summit held in Westminster this week,...

10.02.2024 10

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Are Scots tiring of devolution?

As Scottish devolution celebrates its 25th anniversary, are voters losing faith in Holyrood? A quarter of the country believes devolution has been bad...

04.02.2024 6

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Why did the SNP push for harsher lockdown rules?

Did Scotland’s more cautious approach to lockdown help better contain the virus? The evidence suggests the opposite. In fact, Scotland’s Covid...

24.01.2024 30

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Four graphs that expose the state of Scotland’s NHS

Today’s Scottish government budget was tax-rise heavy – for both individual earners and businesses — in the name of public service support. But...

19.12.2023 20

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The NHS waiting lists are still far too high

The NHS waiting list has fallen, although not by much. The number of patients waiting has fallen from 6.5 million to 6.44 million, while the number of...

14.12.2023 20

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Wes Streeting’s ‘tough love’ approach to saving the NHS

The NHS faces an institutional and structural problem in the way it works, Wes Streeting believes. ‘Unless it changes, it’s not going to...

10.12.2023 10

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