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James Kirkup

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Labour MPs should thank – not blame – Reeves for trying to cut welfare

02.07.2025 7

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Labour’s welfare rebels will regret their revolt

26.06.2025 4

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Only proper welfare reform can bring true ‘national renewal’

11.06.2025 3

The Spectator

James Kirkup

The NHS should be Farage’s next hobby horse

25.05.2025 8

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Nigel Farage’s left-wing turn looks like a triumph

02.05.2025 30

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Reeves had a good day, but she’s hardly in the clear

27.03.2025 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Why Keir Starmer must cut disability benefits

14.03.2025 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Bag-carrier army / Labour needs lots more special advisers

10.03.2025 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Southport and the problem with judge-led inquiries

21.01.2025 20

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Why Westminster is wrong about gilt yields

14.01.2025 4

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Starmer’s grooming gang stance might not last the weekend

10.01.2025 6

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Why won’t the jokes about Rachel Reeves’s CV go away?

Why do jokes about Rachel Reeves’s CV persist? One explanation is simple: it’s funny. The Chancellor’s public persona is strait-laced and...

04.12.2024 3

The Spectator

James Kirkup

There was more to John Prescott than his working class roots

John Prescott has died, leading to a flood of tributes and comments about the working class hero of the New Labour project. That framing of...

21.11.2024 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup

The humiliating emptiness of David Cameron’s legacy

The humiliating post-premiership of David Cameron is the gift that keeps on giving. He might have been gone from No. 10 for more than eight years,...

13.11.2024 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Should GPs make a profit?

The Budget has started a fight between the government and GPs. As is often the case with doctors, that fight is about money, but there is also...

04.11.2024 4

The Spectator

James Kirkup

Jeremy Hunt’s fantasy Budget

As Rachel Reeves prepares what is potentially the most difficult Budget in a generation, a question occurs: what if the Conservatives had, somehow,...

20.10.2024 1

The Spectator

James Kirkup

The state pension system is unfair. Reeves is right to change it

Rachel Reeves is cutting £1.4 billion of pensioner welfare payments with her winter fuel payment means-test. It sounds like a big number, but it’s...

10.09.2024 10

The Spectator

James Kirkup