Can anyone save the NHS?
Short-term sticking plasters rather than long-term healing may be too tempting for Rishi Sunak’s unpopular government.
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Why we need an Office for Spending Evaluation
Governments too rarely spend for the long term – a new institution could help change that.
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Rishi Sunak was meant to heal Tory divisions – but they’re only getting worse
A nurses strike only adds to the Prime Minister’s woes ahead of his spending cuts announcement next week.
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PMQs: the Gavin Williamson scandal makes Rishi Sunak look weak
The Prime Minister’s lacklustre performance in the Common today will not quell disquiet on the Tory backbenches.
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Has Gavin Williamson’s luck finally run out?
The minister is at risk of being sacked from cabinet for the third time, after he sent expletive-laden texts to…
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Are we finally getting over our national poppy obsession?
Perhaps, gradually, without a head of state who served in the Second World War, Britain will start to move on.
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Despite it all, the Tories are still clinging to their reputation for economic competence
Rishi Sunak has restored a measure of public faith in the Conservatives’ handling of the economy – but for how…
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From the NS archive: New men, new priorities
16 October 1964: Britain urgently needs a new government, and the Labour Party is fit to provide it.
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After Liz Truss’s smartphone “hack”, will ministers finally take cybersecurity seriously?
Using personal devices for official business should be a breach of the ministerial code, says a security expert.
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Rishi Sunak has made a dangerous bargain with the populist right
The Prime Minister’s quest to restore prosperity will be undermined by his stance on Brexit and immigration.
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UK politics is the same thing over and over, so why do we expect different results?
I barely remember a time when politics was not this inanely stupid.
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Sunak’s cabinet is overwhelmingly private school educated
More than six in ten of those attending Rishi Sunak‘s first cabinet are privately educated, research from the Sutton Trust…
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Rishi Sunak’s first PMQs exposes his political vulnerabilities
The Prime Minister struggled to defend the reappointment of Suella Braverman and his boast that he took public money out…
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Rishi Sunak should remember prime ministers are replaceable, species are not
If Sunak really wants to make a clean start he should swap protest-crackdowns for nature protection.
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The shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history
Liz Truss takes the record from George Canning, who died in office.
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Rishi Sunak won’t be celebrating long if he becomes prime minister
The former chancellor will inherit an economy in crisis and enfeebled public services.
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From 1993: The demise of John Major
24 September 1993: Why Michael Portillo and Kenneth Clarke are not the dream-ticket replacement.
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How would Labour pay for its spending plans?
A new government could overhaul a tax system that is prejudiced in favour of ownership.
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End this banana republic and call a general election
Britain did not sign up to three prime ministers in three months, a trashed international reputation and a broken economy.
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Suella Braverman’s resignation letter reveals the extent of Liz Truss’s incompetence
It’s stinging to be called out for not being sufficiently serious by a Home Secretary who drivelled on about “the…
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