Even in a season of goodwill, I look back in anger at the Tory mess that was 2022
It will take us a long time – far more than a single parliamentary term – to recover.
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Nigel Farage and the hysterical right know they’ve lost
Reactionaries are facing irrelevance – on Brexit and multiculturalism – so they are left with only frothy-mouthed rage.
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The UK still has some way to go to meet its renewable electricity target
The green share of Britain’s power is increasing steadily, but still lags behind Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal’s.
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Populism is in decline in the West but the UK is still paying the price
The Brexit vote made what could have been a passing fashion a near-permanent feature of our politics.
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How long can Rishi Sunak hold on to No 10?
Divided parties don’t win elections – and, as Sunak is discovering, they cannot effectively govern either.
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The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy
It isn’t schools and universities that are pushing young people leftwards – it’s the housing crisis and student debt.
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How Johnson, Truss and the Tory rebels learned to love onshore wind
The winds of change are blowing in favour of this renewable energy source.
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Banning foreign students would backfire on levelling up
Only allowing them into elite universities relegates domestic students to lower-tier universities – which end up deprived of funding.
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Were asylum seekers about to be sent to a “derelict” hotel? Suella Braverman doesn’t know
The Home Secretary had a difficult time when she was questioned by MPs.
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Cash-strapped councils “not out of the woods” after Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement
There needs to be a long-term funding plan to protect services, says the Local Government Association.
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I’m a public health doctor – I know austerity is why people are struggling
Jeremy Hunt missed an opportunity to improve the population’s health in his Autumn Statement.
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A child has died from Britain’s failed housing system. Will the government finally act?
Incidents like the death of Awaab Ishak are thankfully rare; the conditions that lead to them are all too common.
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The Autumn Statement was an elegy from a Conservative Party in mourning
While Labour is setting the terms of the next election, the Tories are unable to move on from the legacy…
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The UK is facing a living standards catastrophe
It is hard to think of a worse economic backdrop for a party planning a general election in 2024.
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What will Jeremy Hunt unveil in his Autumn Statement today?
The Chancellor is expected to announce £24bn of tax rises – and some senior Tory MPs are already expressing dissent.
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What will be in Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement?
The Chancellor is said to be planning up to £60bn of austerity measures.
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There is an alternative to austerity
Rather than cutting public spending again, the government should finally tax the UK’s vast reserves of housing wealth.
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Is Dominic Raab in danger?
The parallels with the Gavin Williamson scandal are impossible to ignore.
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The Tories failed to fix the roof while the sun was shining and now it’s all falling down
A decade and a half of ultra-low interest rates gave ministers the perfect opportunity to upgrade the fabric of this…
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Kwasi Kwarteng breaks his silence – and blames Liz Truss for everything
The former chancellor has claimed he advised “slowing down” on fiscal reform – but he can’t escape responsibility for 50…
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