The Morning After: A More Hopeful Day
It’s a strange feeling. There I sat at my local count, the future of Ellesmere Port and Bromborough and Chester North and Neston to be decided later that night. In… Read more »
Category: Parliament
“Safety” of Rwanda: A Lie in Our Law
As has been set out clearly in this blog recently, and as anyone with a remote amount of sense can tell, Rishi Sunak’s five priorities are not going well. One… Read more »
UK Politics 2024: The Story So Far
Already 2024 is shaping up to become one of the most consequential years in recent British political history, and it isn’t even Spring yet. In these brief few weeks we… Read more »
Rwanda and Asylum: the Tory Death Knell?
It’s pretty fair to say that the current Conservative Government in the UK is not very popular. True, the past few Conservative Governments have also not been the most well-received,… Read more »
Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework: Sunak’s Gamble
Rishi Sunak today met with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor, Berkshire to reach what is hoped to be the final agreement on Northern… Read more »
Cowardice: Rishi Sunak’s Government
As Rishi Sunak’s premiership gets underway, a pervasive technique has become apparent in the way his government and his party operates.
Liz Truss and the Great Leap Rightward
PM Truss has entered Downing Street. Her cabinet appointments threaten a lurch to the right wing. Can Britain cope?
Sunak and Javid Resign: Johnson’s House of Cards
The Chancellor and Health Secretary have both resigned from Johnson’s cabinet, a one-two punch for the PM, but has it sealed his fate?
Short: Confidence Vote Aftershock
In the aftermath of the vote of confidence conducted yesterday by Tory MPs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s position looks as precarious as it ever has. He, and his troupe of… Read more »
Short: The Vote of No Confidence
It’s finally here! The Vote of No Confidence that the people have been asking for, that opposition MPs have been screaming for, that I personally have been longing for for… Read more »