There is a line in James Graham’s play This House, about the Tory and L:abour whips offices from 1974 to 1979. Graham puts it into the mouth…
There is a line in James Graham’s play This House, about the Tory and L:abour whips offices from 1974 to 1979. Graham puts it into the mouth…
This article was also published on Reaction and Agenda Publica He’s finally gone – well, kind of going. To the very end, and despite all…
“It’s about electability now, not morality”. Thus one Tory backbencher summed up how he saw the situation for himself, and his fellow backbench MPs, when…
This post first appeared in the Financial Times yesterday, before today’s ‘levelling up’ announcements… It’s been just over two years since Boris Johnson’s Conservative party…
“Adenauer, Schumacher, Erhard… and the young people who entered politics after the war, like me, we all shared something. We all wanted to make sure…
When I worked in PR, ‘it’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the cover up’ – was our guiding principle, reinforced by our advice…
The Conservative Party is in a tizz. What will that do to its electoral prospects? The party has, over many decades, been a highly effective…
The great sage of the US House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, gave us the admonition that ‘All politics is local.’. Recent by-election wins by the…
In yet another week of white, hot outrage in Parliament, John McNally MP (SNP, Falkirk) bravely rose on his hindlegs and asked the Prime Minister…
So, you’re in a crowded bar and you’re on the pull. This is a pre/post covid analogy, so use your imagination. You have brought your…
The first lesson anyone preparing for negotiation is taught is this: never enter a negotiation that you’re not willing to walk away from. In that…
As I watch the woeful spectacle of the appointment of the UK’s next prime minister by an un-representative electoral college that is at the top…