Labour has decided ( as reported by George Eaton) that, while the Conservatives may be the official opposition, the main threat comes from Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Today’s PMQs demonstrated quite ...

For British production companies, there appears an ever-dwindling hope of postmaster-style victory. Last week’s limited US trade deal and President Trump’s recent tariff threats on film and TV make ...

Andy Street on the case for moderate conservatism.

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The former prime minister is driven by the pursuit of fairness. In a time of brutal inequality, can he still imagine a better ...

UKIP finished ahead of Labour in the 2009 European elections, a harbinger of Reform’s future performance. Successive prime ...

Tiffany Jenkins’s stimulating history Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life is not, despite what its ...

Echoes of the citizens of nowhere rhetoric – turbocharged – could be heard in yesterday’s warning by Keir Starmer that “we risk becoming an island of strangers”, as the Prime Minister gave a speech ...

Until the start of this week, most people probably hadn’t heard of Zack Polanski. Though the Green Party deputy leader is ...

Remainers within Labour and beyond spy an opportunity: to reunite Britain with the EU they believe it should never have left.

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Jason Stockwood is a businessman and was the Labour candidate for the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty. I lost to Reform in Lincolnshire. But it helped me to see where we are going wrong.