Keir Starmer likes to present himself as the decent man in politics: the former Director of Public Prosecutions, the lawyer who values evidence and rectitude above all, the antithesis of the slick spin-doctor or the blustering populist. “I’m not a politician,” he told anyone who’d listen during the 2024 election campaign, “I’m a public servant.” […]
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It is sometimes claimed – most often by those on the ‘soft Right’ I find – that Enoch Powell and his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech did more harm than good and made discussion of immigration impossible to have in subsequent decades. I believe this to be profoundly untrue, for reasons I will now set out.
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Keir Starmer is now officially the most unpopular Prime Minister in modern history. A paltry 18% of the electorate view him favourably, while the majority of 75% do not. More than half of the British public want him to resign – and if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that percentage was significantly higher across the Labour
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A recent YouGov poll shows that the Green Party has overtaken Labour in voting intention, with 21% of voters saying they would back the Greens at the next general election. Reform UK remains ahead on 23%. This shift has sparked widespread debate about the changing political landscape in Britain. Despite being in government, Labour —
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Is anyone else losing count of the number of parties we now have to the right of centre of UK politics? Incidentally, I don’t count the Conservative Party among them; they swung to the left a long time ago and never came back. UKIP – remember them? – still exist, and their Farage-led spinoff Brexit
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What a week in British politics. And it’s only Wednesday. The Chief of Staff left on Sunday, the Chief of Comms on Monday and there are reports the Cabinet Secretary is on his way out. The leader in Scotland launched a missile, only to see it boomerang and explode right in front of him. Even
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Keir Starmer has to be shortlisted as one of the worst Prime Ministers in history. He has been an incompetent leader, bringing more damage than good to this country. Over a year has passed since the misfortune of Labour being elected into power: people are digging deeper into their pockets, bearing the brunt of a
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I have a strange relationship with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. I am no longer a Stoic and whenever I pick it up, I get the impression that, were there to be some odd kink in the space-time continuum, and I met the Emperor, I would not have particularly liked him. There is a sort
For anyone but die-hard Faragists, criticism of the rapidly-evolving Reform UK top table is inevitable. To political opponents, the latest appointments and defections are either ‘far-right’, Tory 2.0, ‘fascists’ or simply ‘traitors’. To the Reform party faithful, there are more nuanced charges to answer: are Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham genuinely worthy of their prominent
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Nigel Farage has fashioned a political career from his reputation as an anti-establishment voice; the man who reads the public mood arguably better than anyone else at Westminster. From Brexit to his recent incarnation with Reform UK, he has successfully tapped into frustrations over immigration, sovereignty and cultural erosion. His achievements are considerable, and he
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