In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, has seen it all – Remainer hysterics after Brexit, tear-sodden Tory rosettes discarded after the last general election, and the quiet front-bench despair that accompanies the latest dire […]
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Britain heads to the polls today, in what promises to be one of the most consequential sets of elections in a generation. Across England’s council chambers, Scotland’s Holyrood and Wales’s Senedd, the ballot boxes are likely to deliver a verdict that the comfortable sofas at Westminster have long tried to ignore: Keir Starmer’s Labour government
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Keir Starmer entered Downing Street promising the political equivalent of a monastery. He was silent on matters of substance, except to say that his administration would be founded on integrity, service, and an end to scandal; government “whiter than white”, with the adults, finally, back in the room. No more circus. No more rogues. Just
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In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, knows better than to ask questions. He just pours. Most nights it’s half-empty – a few lobbyists nursing grievances, the odd backbencher hiding from the whip, and the
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In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, knows better than to ask questions. He just pours. Most nights it’s half-empty – a few lobbyists nursing grievances, the odd backbencher hiding from the whip, and the
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Forgive my mischievous use of a Rupert Lowe picture… Answer: Reform. I hope that doesn’t lose me too many subscribers. Please read on. I’m going to give a nuanced answer! Why Reform? Several reasons. Not because they’re perfect (they’re not). Recently, for instance, I was sent into a moderate whirlwind of despair by Nigel Farage
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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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