|
Tim ShipmanNew Statesman |
These feel like the most significant local elections for a generation. It was a potentially historic day for Reform and Plaid Cymru, with a few...
These feel like the most significant local elections for a generation. It was a potentially historic day for Reform and Plaid Cymru, with a few...
Dear wannabe leaders of Britain. What a lot of you there are! I’ve been writing about leadership and the craft of politics for 25 years and I’m...
Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list of Britain’s longest-serving prime ministers....
Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list of Britain’s longest-serving prime ministers....
When Morgan McSweeney concluded his evidence on Tuesday to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the Mandelson affair, a senior Labour figure...
When Morgan McSweeney concluded his evidence on Tuesday to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the Mandelson affair, a senior Labour figure...
Politics has calmed down again after a week of rare frenzy, even by the standards of the past decade. Next week promises a few more dramas before MPs...
Somewhere in the vast array of documents the Cabinet Office has gathered on the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador in Washington,...
The government keeps telling us that they are desperate for economic growth and keen to attract overseas investment in UK plc. But a case at the High...
I have just been contacted by a source who knows much more about what happened with Peter Mandelson’s vetting. It supports the case that I made in...
When John Healey was asked, on stage at the London Defence Conference, whether the armed forces were ‘ready’ for war, the Defence Secretary...
I have just been contacted by a source who knows much more about what happened with Peter Mandelson’s vetting. It supports the case that I made in...
I have just been contacted by a source who knows much more about what happened with Peter Mandelson’s vetting. It supports the case that I made in...
The sacking of Sir Oliver Robbins over the vetting of Peter Mandelson is a complicated affair, so I’ll try to break down what we know, what we...
When John Healey was asked, on stage at the London Defence Conference, whether the armed forces were ‘ready’ for war, the Defence Secretary...
Someone in Brussels has a sense of humour. One of the euro elves let it be known this week that the deal which the UK hoped to sign this summer has...
Someone in Brussels has a sense of humour. One of the euro elves let it be known this week that the deal which the UK hoped to sign this summer has...
Donald Trump is very likely the most consequential US President for the world and for British politics since Ronald Reagan, and arguably since Harry...
The energy price surge caused by war in the Middle East has sent shockwaves through Westminster. It has pushed up inflation and the cost of borrowing,...
A Labour MP, reflecting on the problems the Prime Minister faces over the war in Iran, observed this week: ‘Keir got it right, but things keep going...
First of all, it’s farewell to Chuck Norris, the action movie star of such Hollywood classics (Generous – Ed.) as Delta Force II. The man who...
First of all, it’s farewell to Chuck Norris, the action movie star of such Hollywood classics (Generous – Ed.) as Delta Force II. The man who...
A Labour MP, reflecting on the problems the Prime Minister faces over the war in Iran, observed this week: ‘Keir got it right, but things keep going...
Another day, another set of embarrassing revelations about Peter Mandelson. A photo has now emerged of Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and...
A Labour MP, reflecting on the problems the Prime Minister faces over the war in Iran, observed this week: ‘Keir got it right, but things keep going...
Britain is to get a new ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’ under plans to be outlined by the government on Monday, which will also include a new...
The American-Israeli attacks on Iran were publicly called Epic Fury, but behind the scenes it is Britain’s handling of the war which provoked that...
So Gorton and Denton has become another of those parliamentary seat names which enters the collective memory of British politics – a name which will...
So Gorton and Denton has become another of those parliamentary seat names which enters the collective memory of British politics – a name which will...
“The Special Relationship only exists when the Americans want something,” a former Downing Street aide observed after Donald Trump rejected the...
‘The Special Relationship only exists when the Americans want something,’ a former Downing Street aide observed after Donald Trump rejected the...
Keir Starmer has had a pretty torrid couple of months but, as the curtain comes down on another turbulent week, not even Donald Trump attacking the...
When Keir Starmer was told his pledge to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the next parliament was not enough to fund his vision for the...
Years ago, Peter Mandelson shared a key lesson with his protégé Morgan McSweeney. Reminiscing about his involvement in Labour’s 1987 general...
Years ago, Peter Mandelson shared a key lesson with his protégé Morgan McSweeney. Reminiscing about his involvement in Labour’s 1987 general...
When I started out in Westminster in 2001, the parliamentary lobby was a very hierarchical place and the press gallery still had a dining room. We...
When I started out in Westminster in 2001, the parliamentary lobby was a very hierarchical place and the press gallery still had a dining room. We...