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For the sake of Sir Keir Starmer’s mental health, I hope he’s avoiding media assessments of his first year in office.
THE message to the Prime Minister could not have been clearer. It might be the anniversary of your first year in government ...
After ministers were forced to gut their welfare plans in dramatic scenes in the House of Commons last night, who is to blame ...
The debacle over the welfare reforms has stripped Keir Starmer of his authority and left his government damaged. David Maddox ...
The Labour government has now been in office for a year. Rarely have we witnessed a government that has seen the wheels come off so quickly and ...
The Welfare Bill, designed to get a handle on the vast amounts of taxpayer money being dished out to people who, in the words ...
Every Prime Minister has a defining moment, a decision, crisis, triumph or more likely blunder that etches itself in the public mind and shapes their legacy. For Major, it was Black Wednesday. For May ...
As Starmer’s Stormy Year (Radio 4, Monday) reminded us, the last year has been one of U-turns, rebellions (currently ongoing), alienating ...
There is a better prime minister in there fighting to get out, but there is every chance his better elements will prevail ...
What’s the point in sticking with a PM who is investing in nuclear bombs, and the jets to deliver them, rather than in public ...
The watchdog is legally mandated to review how it determines MPs' salaries and expenses following each general election.