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Sebastian PayneFinancial Times |
It’s been a long 14 years since the Conservative Party pledged that net migration would be reduced to “tens of thousands”. Through four...
Jeremy Clarkson, liked and loathed in equal measures, is impossible to ignore. His first coming as the nation’s motormouth brought him legions of...
The tide is rising for Thames Water. Those who haven’t been following i ‘s reports on the saga of the UK’s largest water supply and treatment...
The reeling from the re-election of Donald Trump is palpable both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, there is much hand-wringing, not...
Will Rachel Reeves’s big gamble work? The Chancellor’s first Budget was at least worthy of its long gestation: an audacious, high-spend,...
Is HS2 back on the right track? After the last Conservative government’s ill-advised decision to chop back significant portions of the critical...
Poor Rachel Reeves. It’s 20 days until her first Budget and it’s shaping up to be a nigh impossible conundrum. Having boxed herself in with a...
Let’s be honest, no one in politics is particularly normal. People who put aside stable careers for a precarious existence where success is often...
From the moment he was proclaimed “Mr Rules”, Sir Keir Starmer set himself up for an almighty fall. Just as Rishi Sunak’s pledge to lead a...
“This can’t go on” is one of the most grating mantras in politics. Yet it’s one that often turns out to be true. When Boris Johnson first...
Where is Nigel Farage? When in doubt a good assumption is in America, doing all he can to support his compadre Donald Trump. He might be at home...
Tony Benn was no friend of Whitehall – and the antipathy was mutual. Reflecting on his difficult relationship with officialdom, the hero of the...
It’s not the most obvious nickname that comes to mind, but Robert Jenrick is the first Conservative leadership contender to acquire one. “Bobby...
Imagine a different world. The Bank of England still announced the first interest rate change in over a year yesterday, bringing rates down from a...
“It is always an error in diplomacy to press a matter when it is quite clear that no further progress is to be made,” Winston Churchill...