Why is Boris Johnson’s government determined to send us back in time?
Blue passports, grammar schools, imperial measurements – the aim isn’t to fix the country, but to remind the over-50s of…
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Why Tory leadership contenders should wield the knife against Boris Johnson
The claim that direct challengers to a leader never win the crown is a myth.
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Boris Johnson still does not understand his great betrayal of ordinary people
The brave and dignified patients I encountered during the pandemic are the polar opposite of the Prime Minister.
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The Conservatives are doomed whether or not Boris Johnson survives
There is not a single candidate who seems capable of reuniting a hopelessly divided party.
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Can the Greens become more than a single MP party in England and Wales?
Zack Polanski has announced his candidacy in a deputy leadership race, which could test the unity of the Green Party.
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Will Tory MPs remove Boris Johnson in no-confidence vote?
Since the vote is anonymous, it is difficult to predict how even the most loyal of Johnson’s supporters may vote.
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Why on Earth does Boris Johnson want to scrap the civil service fast-stream?
Wavering Tory voters in Wakefield aren’t worrying about the number of graduates in Defra.
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What is Rishi Sunak’s pitch to the public?
The Chancellor’s repeated U-turns on tax and spending risk leaving voters confused.
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UK suffers highest fall in employment rate in the G7
Lower EU migration and higher rates of long-term illness have reduced employment levels in Britain.
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The return of Red Rishi
The windfall tax shows the Chancellor is only popular when he’s forced into policies he doesn’t believe in.
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Sue Gray report pulls distrust in UK politicians down to expenses scandal levels
Boris Johnson’s partygate scandal has fomented a deep apathy among voters.
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We are being gaslit by Boris Johnson’s government
Faced with so many untruths and contradictions around partygate, our anger quickly turns to confusion and then exhaustion.
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Why the British state is a magic money tree
Government spending power is limited not by tax revenues or borrowing, but by the productive capacity of the UK economy…
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Ahdaf Soueif’s Diary: My nephew is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. Can the British government save him?
Since 2006, every regime that has come to power in Egypt has tried to silence Alaa Abd el-Fattah – but…
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Boris Johnson has proved once again that he has no shame
Any other Prime Minister would have resigned long ago. It will be up to voters to remove Johnson – and…
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How to free the UK from Boris Johnson’s zombie government
There has never been a more urgent time for progressive parties to jointly commit to proportional representation.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s four-day work week
It transpires Rees Mogg takes no official papers back to Somerset for long weekends
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The Afghanistan evacuation was another scandalous failure by Boris Johnson
A spectacularly damning new report by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee cuts through the Prime Minister’s lies.
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How Labour lost the Indian vote
Attacking Rishi Sunak’s elitist background goes down badly with affluent, ambitious, nostalgic Hindus.
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Boris Johnson hasn’t got the “big calls” right
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine all reveal further failures by the Prime Minister, not successes.
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