British Politics

How can a new government make Britain better – and what does ‘better’ even mean nowadays?

For good reason – and much to the frustration of the tabloids – the Labour leader’s wife has done a great job of avoiding the spotlight

Will a Labour government prove quietly competent or will their lack of experience in power lead to trouble?

They might have ruined the country, crashed the economy, partied through Covid and brought us Brexit … but on the upside, the Tories have provided us with great front-page material. We’ll miss that*

A lacklustre campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to get real about Britain’s problems

Will Keir Starmer lead the shift from chaotic Conservative turmoil into a new era of stability, or will it be more of the same?

For philosopher Tommie Shelby, Labour’s commitment to building more prisons is a sign of failure, short-termism, and nothing to celebrate

Being French and yet so invested in British life, you get double the highs and double the lows

Starmer looks poised for victory because those around him understand that Labour is the product of the working class

There must be something better than the juvenile name-calling that has come to characterise our way of government

There are gaping holes in our education system that are vulnerable to exploitation by certain politicians

As Italy turns to the right, the grass is looking greener back home for Britons

It’s a very Anglo-European success, boasting a German founder, Dutch name and British customers

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more

A wave of Brexiter MPs are on the way out. Can a new generation address the elephant in the room – that Britain has changed its mind on Brexit?

Wild, unsubstantiated claims about Labour’s plans recall the worst of George Osborne

The Australian strategist has burned through any credit he had with the prime minister

There is no real point to his Reform Party – so its leader dances ever closer to the extreme right

Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another

The party shows worrying signs of not fully understanding the limits of what might be available to a country outside the club

Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago

A damning report from a California university says we are in decline and decay

Foreign investors are shunning Britain, and there is only one reason why

I hate tactical voting, but with the system we've got we have to use it to get Sunak out of Downing Street

A former editor says the paper’s unquestioning support allowed the Conservatives to lose perspective

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at GB News, Rishi Sunak, Isabel Oakeshott, the Daily Telegraph and more

When the rest of the world looks at Britain they see a country of systemic failures, dysfunction and absurdity. But it need not be like this

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task