The coming economic storm
As inflation reaches a 40-year high and with Britain facing a punishing recession, the Conservative leadership contenders have failed to…
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Does Keir Starmer’s plan to freeze energy bills go far enough?
The Labour leader’s intervention has been welcomed, but critics on the left argue firms should be nationalised, not bailed out.
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How can Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi be on holiday at a time like this?
You'd expect nothing less from the PM and his Chancellor as the economy slips into crisis.
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Deregulation will worsen the climate crisis – and Boris Johnson knows it
Johnson’s urging of his successor to scrap rules protecting the planet in his last PMQs was irresponsible and immature.
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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are struggling to convince Red Wall and Blue Wall voters
The remaining leadership candidates do not address the concerns of focus groups – but neither does Keir Starmer.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak begin their summer of hustings
The Foreign Secretary highlights her loyalty to Boris Johnson, while Sunak calls Truss’s fiscal vision “fantasy economics”.
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“Brexit is the biggest act of self-harm a nation could take”: the CEO of Velux
David Briggs on why sustainability and the EU make good business sense.
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Rishi Sunak will face two opponents in the Tory leadership contest: Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister and his allies will use the Tory leadership contest to cast the former chancellor as a traitor.
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Tory leadership candidates – don’t go back on levelling up
The next prime minister should go big on the inequality Britain cares about most.
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As the Tory leadership candidates obsess over tax cuts, the real monsters are tapping at the window
The climate emergency can no longer be dismissed by politicians – even if some voters don’t regard it as a…
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Kemi Badenoch was the anti-groupthink candidate the Tories didn’t know they needed
It takes guts to defy your in-group, and Badenoch has done so again and again.
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As Liz Truss surges, who is Labour’s dream Tory opponent?
Opinion in Keir Starmer’s party is divided on the weakest possible Conservative leader.
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“I often spend my time sounding like a Lib Dem”: Rory Stewart on the fractured Tory party
The former Conservative MP and one-time leadership candidate shares his thoughts on Boris Johnson and the race to become prime…
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The post-Johnson era is already a nightmare
Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.
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Is anyone in charge of post-Johnson Britain?
There is no “caretaker” administration but a zombie government.
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The story behind the Daily Mail’s attack on Penny Mordaunt
What really happened when the Tory leadership candidate met Zara Mohammed, head of the Muslim Council of Britain?
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The Daily Mail is debasing itself by acting as Liz Truss’s mouthpiece
By pumping out Soviet-style propaganda in favour of the Foreign Secretary, the tabloid is once again doing Boris Johnson’s bidding.
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ITV’s Tory leadership debate was a parade of bizarre non-personalities
From stiff Liz Truss to Penny Mordaunt’s obsession with washing machines, this hour of TV was more buttock-clenching than a…
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While Tories bicker, the country faces a heatwave emergency
As “red heat warnings” are issued for much of the UK, climate change is barely on the leadership candidates’ agenda.
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The Tory leadership debate exposed the party’s brutal divisions
A Labour source described the exchanges between the rival candidates as “a generous gift” for Keir Starmer.
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