The past three and half years had consisted of one policy failure after another. Heath began in 1970 by pursuing monetarism, but as unemployment rose, he panicked and reversed the policy.
With breathtaking audacity she quoted Shelley, long a poet the Labour Party assumed was on their side.
“I know she is passionate about London and about all Londoners, as are we.”
She demonstrates that many of the problems the health service now has have existed from the very beginning.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
The odd thing about this author and his Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
Neither Starmer nor Flynn was able to spoil the PM’s day.
If Sunak reaches a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol, he will need it endorsed by DUP politicians with whom he has almost nothing in common.
The Truss premiership proved a false dawn for free marketeers. But there is still an opportunity for the fortunes of Britain and the Conservative Party to revive.
Conservatives should be careful not to assume that all Hindus are Thatcherites in waiting. Some regard standing up to Modi, and keeping his anti-Muslim politics out of Britain, as much more important.
The problem facing Britain is not that prices are too high, but that the safety net – which Tories have always supported – is too low.
Voters aren’t used to a world of rising prices and interest rates, and their hearts and minds are up for grabs.
Simply put, the volume of migration in the 20th Century was at a level communities could absorb and the economy required. Migrants like my grandparents willingly integrated into British society and shared its values.