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Andrew Gimson is a contributing editor to ConservativeHome and the author of "Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson". He was the Daily Telegraph's parliamentary sketchwriter, and before that the paper's Berlin correspondent.
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His refusal to get to grips with Labour anti-Semitism, or think about anything he finds personally disagreeable, makes him hopelessly unprofessional.
He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.
In the second piece in our three-part mini-series, the Mayor tells ConservativeHome that freeport status can transform the area.
The Secret Barrister has attained a great success with his account of a legal system infected with squalid incompetence.
By inflicting such pain, Corbyn has compelled a discussion. But the Jewish contribution to Britain should not be reduced to mere political calculation.
His profound sense of failure, and scorching humility, live on in his notes to himself in his Prayers and Meditations.
He is the laziest and most self-indulgent Leader of the Opposition in living memory.
The failure to confront anti-semitism within the Labour Party has led to a total breakdown of trust.
These two MPs have not found, at the first attempt, the sort of language that will appeal to the unconverted. But nor did David Cameron.
Only 28 years after the poll tax precipitated Thatcher’s downfall, no one called for a new system of local government finance.
The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.
The Leader of the Opposition admired himself for behaving like a backbench dissident.
It is not that he dares to be dull, but that he cannot help being so. He has prudently turned it to his advantage.
The British Government needs to show the same resolve as in 1971, when Sir Alec Douglas-Home threw 105 KGB agents out of London.