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Usually, the market in political commentary overshoots. Every other week for Tony Blair was his “worst week ever”, as Alastair Campbell used to say. Gordon Brown was written off and...
Benali Hamdache, The Independent When Suella Braverman took to the stage of the Conservative Party conference yesterday and delivered her vision, her charter of cruelty placed her firmly as...
Rarely, outside of rallycross and supermarket car parks frequented by joy riders, can a U-turn have been executed so rapidly. The plan to ditch the 45p top rate of tax...
Tom Peck, The Independent There is always a moment when an opposition party starts to look like a government in waiting. At the end of the 2009 Conservative Party...
Emily Carver, The Independent One accusation levelled at the government is that after 12 years of Tory rule, Britain is broken. Inflation is soaring, growth is stagnant, and the...
What goes on behind the speaker’s chair in the Commons, away from the cameras, tells us a lot about the state of politics. Soon after Buckingham Palace announced that doctors...
King Charles’s warm welcome in Scotland and Northern Ireland during his UK tour cannot mask the fact that he will face a more difficult task than the Queen in holding...
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was not just Queen Elizabeth II. She was simply The Queen. For billions of people, she was the one constant in a world of bewildering...
James Moore, The Independent This isn’t a column about fertiliser prices and the grave impact they’re having on the cost of food. At least for the most part. That’s...
Boris Johnson’s legacy. Boris Johnson’s legacy. I have to confess that more than 20 minutes of thinking time have now passed between the typing of those two sentence fragments, and...