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Ross ClarkThe Spectator |
Who – at least among those of a Conservative mind — didn’t feel a pang of pleasure at the news that Sadiq Khan has been convicted of failing to...
Should public utilities be in public hands? I am prepared to see both sides of that argument, especially as some privatised companies – Thames...
Will the government ever get around to reforming the welfare system? I ask because Andy Burnham seems to have bottled out. It seems that there will be...
We know all about climate change deniers; perhaps it is time we turned our attention to energy bill deniers. This morning Ofgem announced that its cap...
How lovely to hear Education Secretary Lucy Powell sending her ‘massive congratulations’ to children receiving their GCSE results. ‘More of you...
Here it is, finally: Labour’s ‘growth’ strategy. And what does it consist of? Reform of planning laws to make it easier for travellers to set up...
Well done to Reform UK for proposing to make chunky, £50 billion cuts to the welfare budget, more than twice the £23 billion cuts the Conservative...
There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but by doing battle with a bin, he...
There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but by doing battle with a bin, he...
Will Andy Burnham call an autumn general election and take advantage of his prime ministerial honeymoon, or will he go the way of his erstwhile boss,...
Trying to pay my taxes via the HMRC website the other week, my bank thought it had sniffed a rat. “Could this be a scam?” it popped up and...
Well, Andy Burnham’s commitment to devolution didn’t last long. It has failed to survive the mildest of challenges: a proposal by Westminster...
For anti-airport campaigners it is a double setback. In the space of 24 hours, legal challenges against the expansion of Gatwick and Luton have...
‘Growth in every postcode’, ‘levelling up’ – whatever you call it, it is easier to sympathise with the general aim of raising living...
I am not having an election because I am going to stick to the 2024 manifesto on which Labour was elected. That’s Andy Burnham’s position, but...
Does anyone really believe that Andy Burnham will succeed in cutting welfare benefits for 16–24-year-olds, as is being reported? Good luck to him if...
Keen to keep up the momentum on his big (or not so big) ideas, Andy Burnham will apparently announce on Friday that in future some revenue from income...
Andy Burnham has made it clear that he doesn’t much like free markets. And they are making it equally clear that they don’t much like him, either....
Many were the voices arguing that Ed Miliband would be a disaster if appointed Chancellor, frightening markets and sending Britain even further down...
We keep hearing that Andy Burnham’s government will be the most left-wing since the 1970s, when the namesake of the new chancellor promised to...
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since the Thatcher...
Keir Starmer won’t leave much of a legacy, but his last week has brought one thing which will be seen as a totemic achievement in Labour circles: he...
Earnings are taxed too highly, Andy Burnham has hinted, and wealth too little. I don’t hold much hope for a cut in income tax, but I think we can...
I’m a little sceptical of reports that Ed Miliband is prepared to back down and accept new drilling for gas in the Jackdaw field in return for being...
No-one has spent more time opposing Britain’s net zero target than me. I wrote a whole book on it as well as dozens of columns. I have addressed...
It is a mark of Nigel Farage’s position on the nation’s consciousness that he has succeeded in pushing the judgement in the Prince Harry vs...
‘Only the little people pay taxes,’ New York hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley was once reputed to have said. She later discovered, as she was jailed...
Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so as to make life easier for German...
Is Andy Burnham plotting to base his premiership around a policy of ‘cost of living populism’? That is what is being reported following the...
Andy Burnham is not prime minister yet, but he has already outdone John Major. Whoever thought of putting him in a grey outfit against the backdrop of...
Andy Burnham is not giving much away as to what a government led by him would look like. Given that it seems unlikely there will be a leadership...
Is the Right ready to take advantage of a fractious Left in the increasingly unlikely scenario that Andy Burnham will call a general election if he...
Government bonds haven’t had a great few days, but there is one asset which has plummeted far quicker in value this morning: all the Wes...
The Makerfield by-election – in which Andy Burnham swept to victory overnight – has been presented as a fight for the soul of Britain, but in a...
If you thought that Net Zero couldn’t get any sillier, it just has. Remember how, according to Boris Johnson, Britain was going to become the...
It was 20 years ago last month that the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that nuclear power was “back on agenda with a vengeance”. His...
So, is an open labour market a good thing or not? There is little point in looking to the government for guidance on this. A few weeks ago, ministers...
If we have learned anything from the Makerfield by-election campaign it is what a slippery character Andy Burnham is. Last September, in an interview...
The Mandelson files have produced a truly damning revelation about Keir Starmer’s government. But it is one which will be of little interest to many...
Andy Burnham thinks Tony Blair is missing something, and he is being too polite to say it is a few screws. He thinks that the former prime...
Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of Starmer’s premiership, but...
Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain’s borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to March 2023, Labour...
One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know how to win people over, keep...
At any other time the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning would have come as a huge relief for Keir Starmer...
A few weeks ago it seemed as if some sense was finally creeping into Labour’s energy policy. It was reported at one stage that even Ed Miliband...
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who wields the sword never...
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the day that Keir Starmer ought to – and yet still...
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing more than was...
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