The Tories’ secret workforce: record immigration
A government obsessed with sounding tough on migrants loves employing them.
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Will Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement really cut planning “red tape”?
The Chancellor has big plans for UK infrastructure, but they may not be enough to clear the planning backlog.
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The four big myths of Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement
The government hasn’t cut taxes for workers and it can’t take credit for lower inflation.
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What’s printed on Cameron’s ministerial briefs?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Who did Patrick Vallance think was looking after the nation’s children?
The former chief scientific adviser’s Covid diaries expose the risks of making policy without considering its effects.
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Rishi Sunak can’t escape the Tories’ recent history
The Prime Minister is fighting an election on 13 years, not 13 months.
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Exclusive poll: Voters don’t trust the Tories on childcare
Few think Jeremy Hunt will deliver on his pledges to reduce costs of nursery settings.
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Over 1,000 levelling-up projects “unlikely” to be completed by original deadline
Only 64 projects supported with levelling-up funds have been built.
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Why the Tory right keeps losing
Suella Braverman had a good hand but played it badly.
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Was “Comeback” Cameron second choice for Foreign Secretary?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Murder, she wrote
Nadine Dorries has been ridiculed for alleging that a treacherous “movement” controls the Tory party. But are her worst suspicions…
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The end of Conservative England
In trying to strengthen his personal authority, Rishi Sunak has ignited yet another civil war.
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Tory ministers think the next election is already lost
A series of lower-profile resignations from the government are more telling than David Cameron’s return.
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The Rwanda plan is unlawful – what now for Rishi Sunak?
The Supreme Court’s verdict will trigger a new civil war on the right.
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Dropping the Mental Health Bill is yet another broken Tory promise
A joint committee worked tirelessly on recommendations for reform. Labour must pick up its work where the government failed.
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The Cameron delusion
The former prime minister embodies the failures of supposed “centrism”.
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The Tory right’s divided tribes
Suella Braverman and her allies have a radically different outlook to the party’s free-marketeers.
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The Parliament Brief: The triple threat facing the NHS as winter approaches
MPs hear about the pressures facing the health service, from waiting lists to strike action.
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The desperate return of the Cameroons
The adults are back in the room. It’s a shame they trashed it last time.
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David Cameron is “a poster boy for elite capture by Beijing”
Bob Pickard, a whistleblower from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, says the new Foreign Secretary is a mark of British…
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