British business risks being ‘sleepwalked into disaster’ by workers’ rights bill June 22, 2025 British businesses risk “being sleepwalked into disaster” by ministers’ attempts to change workers’ rights rules, the Conservatives have warned. In an open letter to business leaders across the UK, Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said he was “genuinely concerned” over the impact of Angela Rayner’s Employment Rights Bill on the economy. The bill, which is [...]
84 per cent of Brits want Iran blocked from developing nuclear weapons June 16, 2025 A huge 84 per cent of Brits say that Iran should be stopped from developing nuclear weapons, with 44 per cent supporting UK military efforts to intervene, according to polling from think tank More in Common. The overwhelming strength of public concern and the relative backing of intervention is at odds with Sir Keir Starmer’s [...]
Westminster upheavals: Labour MPs could resign, Lib Dems courting Tory MPs June 13, 2025 Political intrigue is alive in Whitehall’s corridors, as Labour’s welfare reforms have landed a number of MPs on ‘resignation watch.’ On the benches opposite, Tories on the left of the party are being courted by Lib Dems. Work and Pensions (DWP) secretary Liz Kendall has told the party she will be pushing through with controversial [...]
Badenoch asks businesses to publicly back Tories June 12, 2025 Kemi Badnoch courted the private sector by promising to reverse tax rises and slating “compliance culture” in an address to the UK’s biggest businesses. The Tory leader invoked the adage that they are the “natural party of business,” while requesting her audience “speak up” in support of pro-business policies. “Put your name to the cause,” the [...]
Kemi Badenoch is still the best the Tories have got June 11, 2025 Kemi Badenoch’s listless leadership is still better than a divisive alternative like Robert Jenrick or James Cleverly, says Will Cooling It’s just over a year since Nigel Farage re-entered frontline politics. What started as an inevitable defeat for the Conservative party in Clacton has become an existential rout. After they slumped to their worst election [...]
Spending review: Rachel Reeves in standoff over police budgets June 9, 2025 Just 48 hours out from the government’s spending review on Wednesday, Rachel Reeves faces a tax and spend tug-of-war between senior Cabinet ministers and the realities of the public finances. Yvette Cooper looks to be the major remaining holdout, with substantial cuts to Home Office funding expected at the spending review and no funding deal [...]
Conservatives must remember that small government is better government June 5, 2025 Labour’s tax-raising, interventionist approach is strangling the economy. Conservatives must make the positive case that individuals, families and businesses make better decisions for themselves than distant bureaucrats, says Brandon Lewis Among its many crises and policy reversals in the past few weeks, a leaked memo from Angela Rayner revealed that a vocal subset of the [...]
Reform present Tories with chance to rebuild economic credibility May 28, 2025 I bumped into a Tory MP in the City yesterday and after a cheerful catch up their mood crumbled when I asked about the state of their party. “We’re finished as a political force” was the frank assessment. A couple of hours later, Nigel Farage was making the same point on stage in Westminster, declaring [...]
The rise of the ABLOC (anyone-but-Labour-or-Conservative) vote May 28, 2025 The rise of the anyone-but-Labour-or-Conservative vote is turning the UK into a six-party state, writes James Reed.
London needs the Conservatives to restore its tech crown May 27, 2025 The Tories left London with more tech unicorns than France and Germany combined. Now Labour is quickly unravelling our legacy, writes Alan Mak MP.