The Conservatives gained a seat from an independent in Angus. Labour held a seat in Cardiff.
The adoption of an America First strategy today would have a different effect on global stability than it would have had 80 years ago, when the U.S.A. was yet to walk upon the world stage. Today isolationism would signal the collapse of the United States as a super-power.
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The Chancellor has little headroom for another Budget. The Rwanda plan is a dud. A Nigel Farage return looms. How much worse can the Tory position become in the next six months?
She not only failed to find the words to win round her Tory opponents: she did not even seem to realise this was necessary.
You know politics is changing when your tour of competitive parliamentary seats takes you to a seat Jeremy Hunt held in 2015 with a majority of more than 28,000.
More than 60 years on from CP Snow’s famous lecture on the ‘Two Cultures’, the gulf he identified between the sciences and the arts is still with us.
We have delivered on the 2019 election promise to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. Crime is going down. The police are being given the equipment and kit that they need to do their job properly.
The Conservative Party must continue its commitment to ending malaria and being a leader in international development in its next election manifesto.
The harsh reality is that we cannot let Putin win in Ukraine or it won’t stop there. Xi is already threatening Taiwan, and watches the West’s response.
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A straw in the wind, perhaps, that the Prime Minister may yet be considering going to the country over the summer.
How does the Parliament of a country one-fifth of whose territory has been occupied by Russia end up voting for a Russian-style law to attack independent civil society?
As both sides have breached the old rule prohibiting direct attacks, yet emerged with their deterrence broadly intact, we cannot discount the prospect of a repeat of April’s regional pinball escalation.