British Politics

They are adrift in the polls, financially hard-up and morally bankrupt.. and now the Conservatives may not even finish second

What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

If the new prime minister gets it right, something better than Blairism is in prospect

John Redwood: the man who got everything wrong

If Starmer wins a majority of 218 or bigger, it will give him one very significant new power

The BBC presenter’s flagship weekend politics show faces a doubtful future

Politics is very different on each side of the Atlantic - but the populist right is determined to bring US-style polarisation to Britain

Nigel Farage is finally an MP – but is the Reform leader now heading into the Westminster spotlight – or into irrelevance?

The Conservatives know their best hope of avoiding a wipeout is to stir up apathy

Their period in power is ending not with a bang, but a flutter

Something is rotten in our rivers and off our coasts, taking the country back to Victorian times

The Conservatives will reshape after election defeat – and Miriam Cates, at the vanguard of Britain’s growing religious right, could emerge as a leading figure

Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul is impressive – but is he really going to defeat Farage?

The bad news is that it’s beginning to work

The right wing press is predicting a Tory wipe-out – anything less, and they’ll say Starmer has failed

A Times columnist thinks Britain's departure from the EU has been a success. His readers disagree

Shutting out the press is a big mistake – especially if you’re heading for a big majority

The rest of Britain is catching up with London – but don’t celebrate just yet

Your weekly compendium of idiotic goings on from the bowels of Britain’s body politic

They’ve been losing big donors – has the party election machine run out of money?

He’s everywhere – and the Brexit press reckons he’s heading for Downing Street

The mainstream media made some spectacular errors of judgment in the run-up to the EU referendum and were played for fools by the Leave campaign

What are these pamphlets of political promises actually for – and why do parties with no hope of winning bother writing them?

The majority of British voters now recognise that Brexit was a disaster. So who is representing our views?

In order to woo Leave voters, Labour has adopted a policy of accepting Brexit, which is exactly what Nigel Farage wants

With an overdose of incompetence, Rishi Sunak has driven right wing Tories back to Nigel Farage

A Russian victory over Ukraine would provide proof of the concept that ‘might is right’

To pretend we can become the fastest growing economy in the G7 – Labour’s No 1 mission – without addressing how to recover from Brexit risks undermining it

We must stop relitigating the lost referendum and start making the patriotic case for rejoining