The Tory exodus is a sign of a failing party – and system
Most Conservatives expect to lose the next election and neither opposition or fighting and losing one’s seat appeals.
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Ian Hislop’s Diary: Getting the choir back together, remembering John Sessions, and what politicians forget about A Christmas Carol
If Jeremy Hunt is “playing Scrooge”, he should give a free goose to every household.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer’s strategy is working
In today’s Conservative Party, MPs feel free to pick and choose which government policies to support. That makes Rishi Sunak…
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We held a Christmas ceasefire in 1914. Surely we can manage a Brexit truce now?
Let Remainers drop the gloating while Brexiteers take their fingers out their ears.
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Leader: The year of living dangerously
In a new era of permanent crisis, the past 12 months demonstrated the power of leadership – for good and…
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Lisa Nandy: “While rentier capitalism has been allowed to run riot, a quiet patriotism has been at work in every community”
The text of the shadow levelling up secretary’s Orwell Memorial Lecture.
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Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”
As the Conservative Party unravels, Starmer is plotting a route to No 10. Is he the radical leader the country…
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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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