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When Dwight D. Eisenhower had to decide whether to launch the D-Day armada he kept a close eye on the weather. Pick the wrong moment and the entire...
When Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood arrived in Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the image of political rivals arm in arm symbolised a new...
When Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood arrived in Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the image of political rivals arm in arm symbolised a new...
We are approaching the end of Andy Burnham’s first week in power. There are as many questions as answers about where he will ultimately plant his...
We are approaching the end of Andy Burnham’s first week in power. There are as many questions as answers about where he will ultimately plant his...
When Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood arrived in Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the image of political rivals arm in arm symbolised a new...
Andy Burnham thinks his critics need a new joke about him. The old one about a Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walking into a bar (‘Hello, Mr...
When I was covering Barack Obama’s battle with Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, there came a moment when only she...
Andy Burnham thinks his critics need a new joke about him. The old one about a Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walking into a bar (‘Hello, Mr...
Westminster is reeling from the news that police believe Ann Widdecombe, the former shadow Home Secretary, was murdered. She was found dead in her...
When Reform high command gathered in the boardroom of their Millbank headquarters last Tuesday, the meeting was supposed to be to select candidates in...
When Reform high command gathered in the boardroom of their Millbank headquarters last Tuesday, the meeting was supposed to be to select candidates in...
Andy Burnham is about to do an ‘ask me anything’ Reddit interview, which may shed some light on his plans, but if it’s anything like the...
The man from Reform had barely sat down at our table at the French bistro when he leant forward conspiratorially and asked: ‘What’s Boris up...
Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening...
We are at the phony war/silly season stage of the Andy Burnham ascendancy and there’s a lot of nonsense flying around. A lot of decisions have not...
We are at the phony war/silly season stage of the Andy Burnham ascendancy and there’s a lot of nonsense flying around. A lot of decisions have not...
Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening...
Before David Cameron got the job of prime minister, he was asked why he wanted it. ‘Because I’d be good at it,’ he replied. This has always been...
Andy Burnham is the new MP for Makerfield and is well on the way to becoming the new prime minister. Much blood may need to flow under the bridge...
There is no situation room, no wall of flatscreens or a hotline to the White House, just a few chairs patrolled by ‘quite a mad dog’. But a garden...
There is no situation room, no wall of flatscreens or a hotline to the White House, just a few chairs patrolled by ‘quite a mad dog’. But a garden...
This is not the end, but it’s well past the beginning of the end, or even the middle of the end. It feels, with six days until the Makerfield...
There was a moment backstage, before I interviewed Kemi Badenoch for a Spectator event, when I felt like John Sergeant with Margaret Thatcher bearing...
This is not the end, but it’s well past the beginning of the end, or even the middle of the end. It feels, with six days until the Makerfield...
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard two things in recent months. Serving and retired military commanders, ministers and former...
There was a moment backstage, before I interviewed Kemi Badenoch for a Spectator event this week, when I felt like John Sergeant with Margaret...
There was a moment backstage, before I interviewed Kemi Badenoch for a Spectator event this week, when I felt like John Sergeant with Margaret...
When he appeared on Question Time yesterday evening, Andy Burnham said the quiet bit out loud – he does intend to run for the Labour leadership,...
When he appeared on Question Time yesterday evening, Andy Burnham said the quiet bit out loud – he does intend to run for the Labour leadership,...
When he appeared on Question Time yesterday evening, Andy Burnham said the quiet bit out loud – he does intend to run for the Labour leadership,...
Darren Jones has become the UK government’s Walter Model, the general known during World War Two as “the Führer’s fireman” for his deployment...
Darren Jones has become the government’s Walter Model, the general known during the second world war as ‘the Führer’s fireman’ for his...
Darren Jones has become the government’s Walter Model, the general known during the second world war as ‘the Führer’s fireman’ for his...
Nothing illustrates the challenge facing Reform UK better than the strained interview Danny Kruger gave to the Today programme on Monday morning....
When the Labour party football team played a group of journalists at Loftus Road two years ago the hacks won 4-1. The politicians’ solitary goal...
When the Labour party football team played a group of journalists at Loftus Road two years ago the hacks won 4-1. The politicians’ solitary goal...
What a week. A prime minister on the skids. A pretender to the throne resigning. The favourite putting his career on the line on what is likely to be,...
Josh Simons, the MP for Makerfield, has decided to stand aside and resign his seat so that Andy Burnham can fight a by-election and return to...
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...
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