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James HealeThe Spectator |
John Healey and the Emperor Nero do not have much in common. Yet the Roman emperor has given the Chancellor the perfect epitaph for his first Budget....
In an office stuffed full of books, Alex Burghart sits back in his chair, sipping on a mug of tea. Beside the Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary is a...
What’s so frustrating about the last three or four months is you might have got the impression of chaos but actually it’s far from it.’ It is...
Expectations are ramping up for John Healey’s statement next week. But with Treasury officials briefing that the Budget will be more of a process...
After the silly season comes the serious stuff. On Monday, parliament returns after a bumper five-party conference season. But while both Andy Burnham...
After a tricky few months for Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK is fighting back. Senior figures have spent the summer discussing how best to tell...
Labour has comfortably won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 45 per cent of the vote, leaving Zack Polanski a distant second on 32.7 per...
Most conference speeches are significant for only one moment. Kemi Badenoch’s address to the Tory faithful today had two of note. The first was a...
Kemi Badenoch often likes to claim that the Conservative Party is her ‘family’ and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that members feel the...
After Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, one veteran factionalist declared: ‘We are all Burnhamites now.’...
The Conservative Party conference is well underway in Birmingham, with Kemi Badenoch making the first of two speeches to the party faithful. Part of...
Zack Polanski has just finished his leader’s speech at the Green party conference in Brighton. It has been an extraordinary 12 months for his party,...
After Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, one veteran factionalist declared: ‘We are all Burnhamites now.’...
After Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour party conference on Tuesday, one veteran factionalist declared: ‘We are all Burnhamites now.’...
Labour conference is done and dusted, and Andy Burnham will be a happy man. His speech yesterday went down well in the hall and continues to make...
Andy Burnham has just finished his first speech as Labour leader. The Prime Minister delivered the message his party craved: a seventy-minute...
The Labour Party conference gets underway in Liverpool today, with Andy Burnham giving his big sit-down interview to Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC. The...
In Brighton Rock, Graham Greene’s 1938 work has two characters debating whether people can truly change. Rosa, the naïve, tragic café worker...
Appointments to the shadow cabinet recall Ernest Shackleton’s job advert to cross the Antarctic. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages,...
The Reform group in the Welsh parliament has just had a nightmare 24 hours. On the first day that the Senedd returned after recess, Dan Thomas was...
In Birmingham, Reform UK has begun its conference amid a wave of allegations that has forced Nigel Farage to suspend two of his top aides. The party...
With the shadow cabinet reshuffle completed, Kemi Badenoch is now turning her attention to the junior ranks. One of the initial complaints of her...
The scale of yesterday’s shadow cabinet reshuffle has taken most Tories by surprise, given a report by the Daily Telegraph last Tuesday which...
Of all the 26 Tory MPs elected in the new intake, none has grabbed more headlines than Katie Lam. A former special adviser, musical scriptwriter and...
Today is the day that Kemi Badenoch settles all family business. A Tory reshuffle that was expected to be small in scale has become nothing less than...
It seems that the shadow cabinet reshuffle is less of an event and more of a process. Traditionally, these events in both government and opposition...
All good Tories are wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But few things were more foreseeable in politics than James Cleverly running for Mayor of...
It was just 78 days ago that John Healey resigned as defence secretary, heralding the beginning of the end of Keir Starmer’s government. In his...
It was just 78 days ago that John Healey resigned as defence secretary, heralding the beginning of the end of Keir Starmer’s government. In his...
If Andy Burnham has a golden rule, it seems to be this: do the opposite of Keir Starmer. The new Prime Minister has made a habit of differentiating...
Tim Montgomerie has this morning been suspended as a member of Reform. It came after an interview that the founder of ConservativeHome did with Tim...
Since succeeding Rishi Sunak in November 2024, Kemi Badenoch has had two jobs to perform. Firstly, her constitutional obligation as leader of the...
‘We love you, Nigel!’ In Clacton-on-Sea, there is little sign that the Reform leader’s star has waned. Campaigning with Farage here is a burst...
The Tories are stepping up their seat selections, amid increased speculation that a new Prime Minister will mean an early election. Kemi Badenoch has...
Andy Burnham’s third day in office tells us much about the man. This morning he unveiled his latest proposal to help on the cost of living: a...
Nigel Farage has always been keen to emphasise his status as a global figure. Whether it is his friendships with America’s Donald Trump or...
One of the key traits of a successful politician is the capacity to surprise. Andy Burnham has proved he has that ability in his first big call of the...
No one quite yet knows what Andy Burnham will be like as Prime Minister. But a preview of the coming Tory critique is offered by Neil O’Brien, the...
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become Britain’s 59th Prime Minister. The team around him has been strikingly circumspect when it comes to setting out...
No one quite yet knows what Andy Burnham will be like as Prime Minister. But a preview of the coming Tory critique is offered by Neil O’Brien, the...
It was Napoleon who said that ‘To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.’ Nigel Farage is nothing...
For almost a century, first the Liberals and now the Liberal Democrats have had to consign themselves to being the third force of British politics....
On the terrace of parliament, only two stories dominate this evening. The first is the end of Keir Starmer, who this lunchtime faced Prime...
It has been a difficult time for Reform. A kind of malaise has hung about the party since the local elections. There have been a raft of internal...
The investigation into Ann Widdecombe’s death continues to astound. Counter terrorism police have now taken the lead on the probe after ‘new...
Nigel Farage has announced he is resigning from the House of Commons to fight a by-election in Clacton. In a 16-minute live statement from Milbank...
With less than three weeks to go until he enters No. 10, Andy Burnham has adopted a ‘Ming vase’ approach to public appearances. With victory...
War! What is it good for? A ding-dong political row. The Defence Investment Plan (DIP) continues to dominate Westminster, following its unveiling by...
At today’s Prime Ministers’ Questions there was only one subject anyone was discussing. The Defence Investment Plan is supposed to be Keir...
This morning Andy Burnham has set out his devolution agenda for government. At the People’s History Museum in Manchester, the new MP for Makerfield...
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