Category: Politics
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Week-in-Review: Lord Hermer, Blue Labour and the defining choice Keir Starmer faces
Across successive PMQs scuffles, Kemi Badenoch has characterised her opponent, the prime minister, as in hock to some clandestine sect of North London solicitors. Keir… Read More
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Senior Conservative says ‘70 per cent chance’ of Reform-Tory merger before next election
There is a “70 per cent chance” that the Conservative Party and Reform UK will merge or agree to an electoral pact before the next… Read More
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Ukraine is on ‘irreversible path to Nato’, Keir Starmer tells Zelenskyy
Ukraine is still on an “irreversible path to Nato”, Keir Starmer has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In an apparent rebuke of the position taken… Read More
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UK defence secretary’s message to Trump: ‘No negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine’
There can be no negotiation on ending the war in Ukraine “without Ukraine”, the UK defence secretary has declared. The comments come after US president… Read More
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Rachel Reeves vows not to accept an ‘economy that has failed working people’
The chancellor has vowed not to accept an “economy that has failed working people” following unexpected growth of 0.1 per cent in the final quarter… Read More
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Why the Liberal Democrats are taking on Trump and Musk
Political activists in the United States watch on in anguish as the liberal Democratic Party struggles to rediscover a sense of urgency, and self, after… Read More
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PMQs verdict: Kemi Badenoch puts in her worst performance yet
The Conservative leader is often accused, not least of all by this commentator, of constructing her arguments based on a skim of her social media… Read More
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Denying citizenship to small boat refugees will ‘strengthen’ Nigel Farage, Labour warned
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has warned that recent changes to immigration rules that bar anyone entering the UK illegally from ever getting British… Read More
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2027: Assembly members from south endorse gov Otu’s second term bid
…Applaud his developmental strides By Kelvin Obambon With the 2027 elections on the horizon, members of the Cross River House of Assembly from the southern… Read More
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UK to deny citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
The government has updated its guidance to prevent people who arrive in the UK illegally, or made a “dangerous journey”, from getting British citizenship. An… Read More