How Gordon Brown wields power behind the scenes in Starmer’s Labour
As the party seeks to forge a vote-winning policy agenda, it has turned to the “enormous brain” of the former…
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What Tory leadership candidate would dare make David Cameron’s pitch today?
Revisiting the former prime minister’s original message in 2005 shows how much the Tories have changed for the worse.
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Liz Truss still appears unstoppable despite her embarrassing U-turn on pay
A new poll has given the Foreign Secretary a 34-point lead, leaving Rishi Sunak with little time to close the…
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Liz Truss’s public sector pay U-turn is a warning to her – and to the Conservatives
The Tory front-runner’s embarrassing retreat shows the danger of fixating on tax cuts and shrinking the state.
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Liz Truss dismisses Nicola Sturgeon at her peril
If the Tory frontrunner wants the Union to survive she should seek to charm Scotland – not offend it.
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Rishi Sunak’s rightwards dash has destroyed what reputation he had left
The former chancellor could have fought an honourable campaign. Instead he’s led an illiberal arms race.
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Truss and Sunak’s lurch to the right jeopardises 2019 coalition
The voters that gave the Tories their majority want levelling up, not tax cuts.
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Keir Starmer’s U-turn on picket lines shows Lisa Nandy’s strength
By visiting striking workers, the shadow levelling-up secretary has proved herself an astute political operator.
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