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This week's grim inflation data has reignited the row about how to bring down prices and get the economy growing again. Once again siren voices are sounding the alarm about a supposed wage-price spiral and are calling for restraint on…
Ask anyone close to the Labour leadership and they’ll tell you that the policy Keir Starmer cares about most is skills. After 13 years of Conservative rule, it’s the closest thing, he would argue, to a silver bullet for a variety of…
It's Whitsun recess this week, so parliament is not sitting and things are generally pretty quiet. The big Westminster story continues to be the lumbering saga of the Covid inquiry's attempt to pin down Boris Johnson, specifically over…
This article is being published in ConservativeHome and LabourList and has been authored by a coalition more mind boggling to British political doctrine than the French Catholics and the Ottoman Empire or Matt Hancock and Boy George – a…
When you are trying to find your way somewhere, the most unhelpful advice anyone can give you is "I wouldn’t start from here". The same point applies to the suggestion by some on the left that Labour should go into the next election…
Good morning. Keir Starmer and his team will be feeling pretty happy the morning after his media blitz yesterday. He gave a confident performance in interviews with many outlets. He got significant attention for his housing "builders not…
Good morning. Labour is “looking at” allowing EU nationals to vote in national elections and granting votes to 16- and 17-year-olds. Keir Starmer was quick to stress that the party has no “settled policy” during a phone-in on LBC radio this…
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) of 1998 was one of the great achievements of international diplomacy; a realisation of years of effort, tough negotiation and compromise across these islands. The Agreement stands as a landmark…
Nick Thomas-Symonds has argued that the "devil is in the detail" of the UK's agreement to join the Asia-Pacific trade bloc and urged ministers to provide answers on "vital issues" including consumer safety and environmental protections. It…
Twenty years on, Labour’s discussion of the Iraq War is curious and worrying in equal measure. The disaster often seems to have been absorbed into a wider factional politics in which positions on the war are more likely to be shaped by…
Rishi Sunak has won a vote on a key aspect of his deal to amend the Northern Ireland protocol by 515 votes to 29, receiving Labour's backing while 22 Tory MPs rebelled against the plans. The Prime Minister won a vote on the so-called…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to "stop the boats". His new illegal migration bill would create the new powers that he claims the government needs to make this happen. There are three different criticisms of why this plan won't…
