Is immigration policy going anywhere?
While the Tories flit between relaxing visa restrictions and migrant barges, no one is pleased.
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Labour’s Ulez panic cedes ground to the Tories
The party’s self-recrimination leaves a space that right-wing climate scepticism is all too happy to fill.
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A progressive alliance would have won Uxbridge
The centre left needs a cross-party coalition to defeat the Tories and defend policies such as Ulez.
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Most Tory MPs will be terrified by the by-election results
Victory in Uxbridge does not compensate for the dramatic anti-government mood elsewhere in the country.
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The by-elections were a warning to Sunak – and Starmer
Uxbridge shows that Labour has not yet sealed the deal with the public.
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The Tories can take little consolation from their Uxbridge victory
For Rishi Sunak, the national picture remains unremittingly grim.
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Would proportional representation really doom the Tories?
The centre right has regularly governed in western European countries with proportional systems.
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Labour and the Tories have more in common than they say
Both parties are committed to spending restraint and neither has a compelling plan for growth.
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How Gen Z can save the Conservative Party
There are young thinkers that long for a party to assert cultural conservatism, and not just manage national decline.
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David Lammy reminds voters that, unlike the Tories, Labour loves the rules
The shadow foreign secretary’s speech today shows a party committed to upholding international obligations.
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The Bank of England is complicit in the Tories’ economic failures
Andrew Bailey incurs the public’s wrath for today’s economic pain, but his predecessors have questions to answer as well.
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The price of the Tories’ cynical economics
The Conservatives’ governing philosophy is that the consequences don’t matter so long as there is a line to take.
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The mortgage crisis is an existential threat to the Tories
If the Conservatives start to lose homeowners, their future is imperiled.
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Can Bim Afolami solve the Tories’ millennial problem?
The Conservative MP on why his party hasn’t “got the deal right for younger people”.
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Paul Nowak: “I fit every stereotype of a Daily Mail trade unionist”
The TUC general secretary on Labour, taxation, and the false promises of the green economy.
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Millennials are breaking the oldest rule in the political book
They’re not turning Tory.
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Sunak’s target to halve inflation is even worse than Tories think
Voters aren’t clear what it means.
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Why the Conservative Party is broken
An unrepresentative membership has shifted the party’s centre firmly to the nationalistic and authoritarian right.
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Labour is getting bolder on Brexit
David Lammy’s position on the EU is aligning with public opinion.
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Why we should fear a Tory rout
Electoral humiliation could enable a comeback by Boris Johnson or the rise of Suella Braverman.
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