Author Archives for Robert Colvile

General Elections are always an uncomfortable period for those of us who like our facts straight and our figures honest. [...]

As theGeneral Election clunks into gear, it’s already clear what Labour’s approach will be: promise to spend literally all the [...]

Say what you like about Jeremy Corbyn, at least he’s not afraid to play the hits. A week into the [...]

Britain’s economy has been distorted. London takes all the jobs, all the talent, all the investment, leaving crumbs for everyone [...]

Where has all the growth gone? It’s the biggest economic question that we face – not just in Britain, but [...]

Have the Tories fallen back in love with business?  In place of lectures from Theresa May about executive pay, this [...]

To say that the Labour party conference hasn’t been going quite as the leadership might have intended would be something [...]

Stop Brexit. For those working in Westminster, this has become the song of the summer, chanted by the throng of [...]

When the history books are written, Boris Johnson may well be remembered as the man who delivered Brexit. But there [...]

It was Michael Gove who popularised the term “the Blob” to describe the establishment forces battling his education reforms. It’s [...]

One of the most exciting shifts in policy under the new government has been its whole-hearted embrace of free ports. [...]

It’s been great to see the new government hit the ground running, and even better to see it focus on [...]

To understand how close the relationship between Britain and America really is, consider a conversation that took place in December [...]

It’s been a sad, strange journey for Chuka Umunna. Only a few short years ago, he was being touted as [...]