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
Sunak was right to worry about his £70 billion scheme. It has led to a welfare crisis, not a jobs recovery
The UK is more exposed than many thought to influence-laundering, but better able to defend itself
Some ministers even seem to believe they’re cutting taxation. Voters are more likely to trust their payslips
Ministers were blinded to what was going on when they began to treat faulty OBR modelling as gospel
After four years of shifting Labour policies, he accuses the Conservatives of the very cynicism he displays
A number of key trends will turn in No 10’s favour in 2024, but the results will not be immediate
Politicians risk ceding the whole debate to the conspiracy theorists if they continue to treat it as off-limits
Thousands are dying from preventable causes and missed diagnoses. Too few are willing to ask why
There is no alternative to the policy, but that may not matter to Tory MPs with a taste for regicide
Few politicians will dare to address worklessness when it is far easier just to import more migrants
It’s simply cruel to tolerate people-smuggling. Only when this case is made can the Rwanda policy survive
The Braverman drama is indicative of a party that knows it faces a choice of defeat – or annihilation
Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it
Defeat isn’t inevitable, if only they realised there’s no shortage of causes the Right could champion
The country’s referendum on ‘the Voice’ saw division beaten by optimism. The Tories should take note
Muslim integration has been a huge success in the UK. We can’t let Hamas and its ilk undermine that