It could be said the EU was never going to offer Britain a Switzerland-style deal November 24, 2022 It is often said that Britain is a nation divided by our relationship with Europe, but British people are in fact united in their disinterest as to how the European Union works. To most it will always come across as a byzantine mixture of commissions, councils, and competencies presided over by a rather grey cadre [...]
Sunak needs to learn to fight for his decisions – if not for Gavin Williamson November 10, 2022 Malcolm Tucker once reassured a hapless minister that their job was safe because it was too soon to fire them; “Sacked after 12 months – looks like you’ve f***ed up. Sacked after a week – looks like he’s f***ed up”. It’s apt that the behaviour of a man who seemed to yearn to star in [...]
Open arms? Sunak’s cabinet is a white flag as he fights for the party’s survival October 27, 2022 Sunak has promised all wings of the party that they can pursue their favourite plans as long as they also agree to a painful bout of fiscal tightening.
Chaos has made it easy for Labour, but there is an uphill battle to repair the damage October 21, 2022 The chaos of the past 44 days will force Starmer to set aside the schemes of socialists and the dreams of liberals, and instead do the work the Tories have ignored.
Truss has picked the wrong fight: the problem is inflation, not lack of growth October 13, 2022 In her speech to what was left of Tory party conference, Liz Truss promised that her priority was “growth, growth, growth”. The events of the past week have underlined why that is the wrong priority, at the wrong time, by the wrong prime minister. Much has been made about the prime minister’s ideological convictions but [...]
As Starmer dreams of Downing Street, beware of sweeping electoral reform September 29, 2022 Labour can finally start dreaming about being able to form a majority government at the next election. So it may seem odd timing for the party’s conference to endorse electoral reform for the first time in nearly a hundred years.
Liz Truss is determined to ignore reality and push inflation up with price freezes September 15, 2022 It is hard to believe only a week has passed since Liz Truss made the announcement that was set to immediately define the start of her premiership; a blanket cap on energy bills so that the average household pays no more than £2,500 a year. After being harried for weeks by the opposition parties, she [...]
Rishi Sunak’s demise was sealed long before he ever threw his hat in the ring September 1, 2022 It is a spectacular fall from grace, and one that began long before this leadership election began.
Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze the price cap would leave us all out in the cold August 18, 2022 There is an old nursery rhyme about how an elderly lady tried to rectify swallowing a fly by swallowing a spider, only to quickly realise she would now need to deal with the spider. She proceeds to consume a whole host of animals until she predictably dies. It’s a pleasingly nonsensical and morbid illustration of [...]
Conservatives are paralysed by a false idea of what the ‘take back control’ means August 12, 2022 The Brexit promise to “take back control” has been translated to mean scrap all European regulation
