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Chris Philp: Labour have U-Turned on ILR
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (345+ words) Chris Philp MP is the Shadow Home Secretary. Shabana Mahmood promised that indefinite leave to remain would stop being handed out automatically. Andy Burnham has proved that he never intended to let her keep that promise. Autumn has now arrived....
Burnham is less 'same-same but different' - as same same same
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....
PMQs - Badenoch and Burnham clash over defence spending, again, with point scoring back on both sides
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (71+ words) The Prime Minister outlined 'the Labour way' of funding defence, the Leader of the Opposition told him not only was he wrong, but he simply doesn't know where he's getting the money for any of his plans defence or otherwise....
Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Feelings are not an economic plan
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (920+ words) There was something revealing about John Healey’s speech on Monday. At a moment when Britain desperately needs an economic strategy, the Chancellor offered something closer to economic cognitive therapy: retraining us to believe that if growth feels possible, it will…...
Peter Franklin: Is the new Shadow Cabinet serious enough to put debt reduction before tax cuts?
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (915+ words) Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd. The 2024 Reform UK manifesto took the form of a £90 billion tax-cutting bonanza. The single biggest item — costing £50 billion — was a pledge to raise the income tax threshold to a mega-generous £20,000. I’m sorry,…...
Lord Ashcroft: Should we keep the triple lock, should (and will) taxes rise in the Budget, will Burnham try to rejoin the EU, what do we think of No10 North?
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (633+ words) Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For more information on his work, visit lordashcroft.com My latest poll looks in detail at the characters of the main parties and their leaders, whether people’s front…...
Tony Devenish: My Manifesto for London - for Cleverly - but for a contest
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (243+ words) Cllr Tony Devenish represents Knightsbridge and Belgravia Ward on Westminster City Council. He is a former member of the London Assembly. James Cleverly has announced he will stand for selection to (hopefully) become our Party’s Candidate for Mayor of London....
Andrew Bowie: The Climate Change Act is cooking the carbon books and damaging Britain - it's got to go
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (759+ words) Andrew Bowie is Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. Margaret Thatcher’s speech to the UN General Assembly on the 8th of November 1989 has gone down in Conservative lore as the moment that we,…...
Badenoch wants to move away from the past but Burnham's embracing it
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1309+ words) “Don’t look back in anger, don’t look back in anger, I heard you say” This iconic Oasis anthem from the 1990’s is a fitting soundtrack to the first few days of Andy Burnham’s arrival in Parliament as Prime Minister. Not…...
Harriet Dolby: We should be ashamed of our planning system
1+ week, 4+ day ago (799+ words) Harriet Dolby is a Parliamentary Researcher, a former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and a team member of Next Gen Tories. In 1847, just two years after the project was approved, the first steam trains ran from Cambridge to…...