"Jenrick likes attacking āMetropolitan elitesā. He is a Cambridge-educated lawyer with two homes in central London... To loosely quote Gilbert and Sullivan... he is, in fact, the very model of a modern metropolitan."
Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage claim to fear the demise of our national identity and culture, but they canāt even define what they are
The most undiscussed fact in British politics: the average personal tax rate is at its lowest since 1975. ifs.org.uk/articles/how...
Among other things, this is just Grade A political ineptitude. You've carved out a space where no matter how difficult you are internally the whips have to give you softer treatment, it's right at the start of a five year parliament, etc etc.
In her resignation letter, the MP lambasts Sir Keir Starmer for the āstaggering hypocrisyā of accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping winter fuel payments
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I am starting to wonder if the issue is just there is a group of people who were convinced they could work under the Tories for their whole career & are struggling with finding out thatās not true www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves said to have dismissed concerns about policy, even though it contained ābasic errorsā
A bit late, my two favourite bits of Starmerās speech to conference. First, a shout out to (Iām pretty sure) the first party leader to tell their conference that they love Beethoven, Brahms, and Shostakovich.
Excellent and entirely correct piece. Sam showing astonishing patience given some of the replies to thisā¦
Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on an under-appreciated aspect of Labour's inheritance.
Labour ministers find that their newly active government stands on atrophying limbs