The upcoming emergency budget will offer the chancellor of exchequer, George Osborne, an opportunity to set up his stall as an unofficial candidate to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No other…
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Successive governments have criticised the BBC for being too impartial or not impartial enough.
PM accuses some Muslims of ‘quietly condoning’ Islamic State ideology.
A survey of party members reveals the hardest workers are also the most likely to leave.
Keeping taxes lower and protecting the government services most dear to our hearts has huge implications for everyone.
Tough Tory manifesto commitments and hatred of wind farms from the right will make it hard for the new government to meet its EU renewables commitments. Scotland might be able to help.
The day after the general election, this column quoted Churchill’s line about this not being the end, or the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning. This was meant to imply that although…
It has been 40 years since Britons last voted on their place in Europe and the debate has raged ever since.
Conservative targets for 1% annual savings in the next two years will actually feel like more than 5% for a swathe of government departments.
Conservative political parties did not conjure up English nationalism, they capitalised on a growing trend.
‘Shy Tories’ doesn’t cut it. There is another anomaly in the election poll data which offers a more useful angle on what went wrong.
Labour needs to make three big improvements, if it’s to improve its performance in 2020.
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
The Tories have had the Human Rights Act in their sights for some time – but now they’ve got a chance to do take it out, they could end up living a nightmare.
Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
There were two winners on Thursday night and they may well find themselves on a collision course in the new parliament.
Markets were always likely to prefer a Conservative majority to any other result, but they might need some policies diluted for the gains to be sustained.
Such an unexpected general election result was bound to throw up more than its share of ‘Portillo moments’.
A stunning surprise put the Conservatives back in power with no need for a coalition, while the Scottish nationalists stormed to victory north of the border. What now?
After what must be the most irresponsible campaign ever by a governing party, there are choppy waters for the Tories to navigate
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