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  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Failing public services are not helpless — government must step up

    Education ministers at least have control over some policy levers to reverse grim decline in standards

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Ever more diverse country makes for a dynamic political divide

    Labour’s pledge to scrap charity status for private schools hints at its limitations in upholding broader tax promises

  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak faces a fractious party, but that is not a huge problem for him

    Prime minister’s broad appeal to both right and left flanks makes him an ideal Tory leader at this moment in time

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak’s hanging back on foreign policy shows how he is trapped by his party

    Plan to keep relatively quiet in December, compared with recent Tory high drama, may strengthen him

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Years of austerity are now writ large on the UK state

    Insufficient government planning behind spending cuts in past decade has resulted in chronic backlogs

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Why are Tories still making silly promises on immigration?

    Sunak’s government must focus on delivering improvements it can control rather than ‘net’ migration figures driven by global forces

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Scottish independence
    Nicola Sturgeon’s tricky balancing act

    Plus, as Simon Clarke attempts to amend levelling-up bill amid Tory MP rebellion, will Rishi Sunak accept Labour’s help?

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Labour’s tougher line on immigration comes at a cost

    While Scottish voters share similar attitudes on the issue of movement to the rest of the UK, views on Brexit differ

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Brexit
    Brexit is far from being ‘done’

    Sunak has quashed talk of a Swiss-style agreement, but debates about EU-UK relations are not going away

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Tory anti-growth forces stand in way of a growth strategy

    Constructing a growth strategy that commands a majority among its MPs is a bigger problem for the Conservatives than electoral defeat

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Hunt’s budget is more Alistair Darling than George Osborne

    Plus, real household disposable income is set to fall by the largest drop since the 1950s

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    UK Budget
    Tax increases raise chance of yet more Tory infighting

    Plus, our underfunded NHS lags behind many European peers

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Frosty UK-China relations are here to stay

    Sunak has softened his language on Beijing, but his ability to reset the Conservatives’ approach is limited

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Bad smell lingers around Tories as past failures return to haunt them

    George Eustice highlights Australia trade deal weaknesses, and even the home secretary senses the UK-France pact will not solve small boats issue

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Autumn Statement
    Will the Tory post-election spending cuts get through? I’m unconvinced

    Plus, the gaping hole that matters is in the UK’s credibility with the markets

  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Women’s pains are still not being taken seriously

    Belfast campaigners say they are struggling to reach politicians, as waits for endometriosis diagnosis worsen

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Autumn Statement
    As strikes abound, Rishi Sunak must go against his political instincts

    Plus, why Gavin Williamson was brought back into cabinet, and how his iron-fisted management style came to topple him

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Gavin Williamson had too many enemies

    Plus, the other person with too many enemies is Rishi Sunak

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    UK tax
    There’s no disguising cuts to public services and infrastructure

    Plus, Conservatives need to accept the country’s fiscal difficulties result from long-term societal and geopolitical changes

  • Monday, 7 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak excuses ministers’ faults at expense of integrity

    Plus, how pandemic shift to hybrid working might play out in general election

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Conservative Party UK
    Tories cannot escape blame for economic chaos

    Plus, Sunak puts skills first with powered-up education department

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Harriet Harman
    The three marks of a competent politician

    We look back at the career of former Labour leader Harriet Harman, who has served 40 years in parliament

  • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    The tricky balance between sustainable childcare and growth

    Happily, state support for families is being debated within and between political parties in terms of workable solutions

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    UK immigration
    Immigration rhetoric without delivery won’t wash

    Plus, polls show Labour defeating Conservatives on most policy issues, and tax rises on the way

  • Monday, 31 October, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Sunak’s COP27 wavering tells us a lot about his instincts

    Prime minister would dampen his core appeal by repelling voters for whom climate emergency matters most

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