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Furlough didn’t save millions of jobs. Its true costs are only now becoming clear
Sunak was right to worry about his £70 billion scheme. It has led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery
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Parliament has finally shown the autocracies what money can’t buy
The UK is more exposed than many thought to influence-laundering, but better able to defend itself
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This is how Tories fall: by promising tax cuts while doing the opposite
Some ministers even seem to believe they’re cutting taxation. Voters are more likely to trust their payslips
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The post-Brexit immigration surge was an accident, not a conspiracy
Ministers were blinded to what was going on when they began to treat faulty OBR modelling as gospel
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Starmer is now a master of broken promises – but will anyone notice?
After four years of shifting Labour policies, he accuses the Conservatives of the very cynicism he displays
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A May general election would hide the green shoots of Tory recovery
A number of key trends will turn in No 10’s favour in 2024, but the results will not be immediate
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Britain’s declining birth rate is becoming a problem too big to ignore
Politicians risk ceding the whole debate to the conspiracy theorists if they continue to treat it as off-limits
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Britain is paying the deadly price for telling the public to ‘protect the NHS’
Thousands are dying from preventable causes and missed diagnoses. Too few are willing to ask why
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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan might just work, if his restive backbenchers let it
There is no alternative to the policy, but that may not matter to Tory MPs with a taste for regicide
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Mass migration is covering up the scandal of out-of-control welfare
Few politicians will dare to address worklessness when it is far easier just to import more migrants
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Failure to reform asylum laws is inhumane – and Rishi must say so
It’s simply cruel to tolerate people-smuggling. Only when this case is made can the Rwanda policy survive
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Are we witnessing the break-up of the Conservative Party?
The Braverman drama is indicative of a party that knows it faces a choice of defeat – or annihilation
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The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose
Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it
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Conservatism is in crisis because the Tories no longer have a faith to live by
Defeat isn’t inevitable, if only they realised there’s no shortage of causes the Right could champion
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Australia has given us a masterclass in how to defeat identity politics
The country’s referendum on ‘the Voice’ saw division beaten by optimism. The Tories should take note
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Mainstream British Muslims are failed by their toxic so-called representatives
Muslim integration has been a huge success in the UK. We can’t let Hamas and its ilk undermine that
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