Search Results - GulfToday

Suggestions

    SHOWING 39 Results

    American, British conservatives are frozen in failure

    11 Jan 2023

    For the past few years, the US and the UK have followed strikingly similar political trajectories. Against all odds, populist uprisings captured both countries’ conservative parties, secured power and embarked on projects of national transformation. These efforts went badly (to put it generously), and in due course

    Johnson loyalists risk dragging the Tories with them

    14 May 2023

    If things had been going the way the Bring Back Boris campaign had wished, then Rishi Sunak would have resigned by now in abject shame at the local election results, and Boris Johnson would be party leader and prime minister again, by acclaim. They hoped for the biggest comeback since Lazarus. A few months ago, it looked just

    It is going to be tough for Sunak

    25 Oct 2022

    Can Rishi Sunak deliver? That is the big question that confronts the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party, and its newly appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

    Truss quits, Tories begin hunt for new PM

    21 Oct 2022

    Political pundits can now say with confidence that they knew that Liz Truss who won the Conservative Party leadership contest only last month, had to admit that her economic programme failed

    My first Conservative conference was surreal – a Tory Disneyland where Boris Johnson is the key star

    11 Oct 2021

    At night, I sometimes lie awake in bed wondering if I suddenly died at the beginning of the pandemic and I’m now living in an alternate reality. Is this my afterlife?

    Sajid Javid brings back face-to-face appointments with GPs

    15 Oct 2021

    We’re well used to auto-parodic politics by now. So much so that it is barely even worth noting that Sajid Javid should, in the morning, launch his “rescue plan” for GPs,

    For Johnson ‘end is nigh’— maybe in several years’ time

    20 Dec 2021

    Prime ministers tend to last longer than you think. I haven’t placed a bet of more than 50p on politics since I lost an undisclosed sum on John Major to cease being prime minister in 1994. It seemed obvious to me that the Conservative Party

    Why progressive alliances in politics don’t work

    27 Dec 2021

    We’ve seen a lot of heated discussion over the past week about what lessons should be learnt from the Liberal Democrats’ stunning by-election win in North Shropshire. Conservative MP John Redwood claimed the result was due to public concerns about “taxes sandbagging

    Revolt brewing against Johnson on social care

    06 Sep 2021

    Maybe this is a good moment to remind ourselves about some things that the Conservatives said in their 2019 election manifesto.

    Trudeau’s game plan to win majority faces resistance

    13 Sep 2021

    Will Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau win a third term as prime minister or will Conservative leader Erin O’Toole ruin his plans?

    39 Results

    Most Popular Stories