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William Schomberg, Reuters Finance minister Jeremy Hunt tried to show that Britain’s economy was turning a corner in his budget statement on Wednesday, but his chances of bolstering his...
The latest rumours on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list are not clear as to whether he has offered a mere knighthood or a full blown peerage to his own dad,...
Keir Starmer keeps telling us what he believes, often at length. There was the 14,000-word Fabian pamphlet 18 months ago. In the past week he has given a speech about...
Sean O’Grady, The Independent Gray’s prospective appointment marks an excellent start. It’s meant to signal Labour is serious about power — and so it does The Tories are gnashing with...
They say there’s nothing so “ex” as an ex-prime minister, and, in the case of Boris Johnson at the moment, the man is simply invisible. When Rishi Sunak made his...
Ed Dorrell, The Independent Gordon Brown. David Blunkett. Robin Cook. Margaret Beckett. Mo Mowlam. Jack Straw. John Prescott. Tony Blair’s first cabinet in had some truly magnificent big beasts...
Ed Dorrell, The Independent In Westminster, you can almost feel the power slipping away from Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives. Every week I have lots of meetings with members of the...
Is Liz Truss really having a “comeback”? Things move pretty fast these days but does a “comeback” not require the person coming back to have first gone away for a...
Chris Blackhurst, The Independent There is something about Labour’s way of managing money that provokes alarm. The opposition is putting pressure on Jeremy Hunt to reveal by the end...
After the turbulence of last year, the most common question put to me by young MPs is: “Will the next election be a repeat of 1997?” My answer used to...
