The Tories remain the prisoners of market ideology
Boris Johnson’s party wills statist ends but it refuses to commit to statist means.
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PMQs: Is Keir Starmer wise or weak?
The Labour leader is rarely ever judged to have skewered Boris Johnson, in part because he rarely tries.
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Boris Johnson’s Britain stands as an international epitome of visionless drift
The prime minister resembles Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former PM, who offered boosterish posturing in place of substance.
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Letter of the week: The centre of the system
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Jeremy Hunt: “It’s a rabbit hole to try and change how the NHS is structured”
The former health secretary and 2019 Tory leadership candidate on Blue Wall Toryism, health policy and social care.
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Leader: Beyond the cynicism of Boris Johnson
The UK needs more than a new prime minister: it needs constitutional reform.
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Boris Johnson’s government has lost all sense of direction – but so have his Tory opponents
On both sides of the no-confidence vote, there is incoherence and confused messaging over what to do next.
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