Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” speech is a message to Blue Wall Tories
The Prime Minister is making clear the party’s new “Red Wall” voters are his priority, and MPs in traditional Conservative heartlands…
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Boris Johnson’s Tyrone Mings problem is bigger than you think
Today’s PMQs exposed the danger of the Prime Minister's culture wars strategy.
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Most football fans – and most voters – support the England team taking the knee
Boris Johnson’s government is on the wrong side not only of football supporters but the public at large.
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Rishi Sunak’s spending cuts have survived their first big parliamentary test
The government has defeated opposition to reducing the foreign aid budget, but bigger challenges are yet to come.
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Colum Eastwood’s naming of Soldier F is the beginning of a fraught debate over legacy issues
The SDLP has controversially used parliamentary privilege to name the soldier involved in one of the most emotive cases of…
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The foreign aid cuts rebellion shows Boris Johnson has a party management problem
Tory revolts reveal the fractious mood developing under Johnson’s leadership – but his majority is currently big enough to withstand…
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The decision to unlock on 19 July is the biggest gamble Boris Johnson has taken so far
The Prime Minister has emphasised that “this pandemic is not over”, but no one knows what comes next.
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England’s Euro 2020 defeat shouldn’t obscure the progress it has made
The iconic image of the final, from an English perspective, is surely the embrace that Gareth Southgate gave Bukayo Saka.
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