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An alternative history. Remain won the referendum, and it settled nothing. May is PM with no majority. Another election looms.

The point we are making is that the UK would be unlikely to enjoy settled EU membership, instead of the present Brexit talks crisis, had Leave lost.

By Paul Goodman | 11 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 93 comments

When does the talking stop being talks?

Even the cut-off point of the end of transition, and the arrival of No Deal, won’t necessarily halt the negotiation.

By Paul Goodman | 10 December 2020 at 7:00 am | 135 comments

Gove’s bargain to break the deadlock on trade with Ulster leaves big questions unanswered

He has secured a ‘mini-deal’ of the sort we were once told Brussels would not countenance – but there is room in the detail for a choir of devils.

By Henry Hill | 9 December 2020 at 5:00 pm | 23 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson launches a diversionary attack on Starmer for being a North Londoner

Only with the benefit of hindsight will it be possible to see what game the Prime Minister is playing in the Brexit negotiations.

By Andrew Gimson | 9 December 2020 at 2:10 pm | 4 comments

Hancock bounces bounces bounces back

The sheer speed of vaccine invention and deployment marks a political win for him as well as a British triumph.

By Andrew Gimson | 9 December 2020 at 6:50 am | 88 comments

Johnson to fly to Brussels. Triumph, sellout, last-ditch gamble – or simply showing willing before talks collapse?

The commonsense presumption must be that he wouldn’t be going at all were a deal not at least possible.

By Paul Goodman | 8 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 141 comments

The Government must ensure vaccine ID cards don’t become a “freedom passport”

Although they’re designed to remind people of the dates they got their jabs, it’s been hinted that they could be used in a similar way to the Test and Trace app.

By Charlotte Gill | 7 December 2020 at 5:30 pm | 53 comments

No Deal. The spectre of Suez or the power of patriotism?

Mandelson thinks that by aiming to gain everything on Brexit, Remainers ended up with nothing. There is more than one way of history repeating itself.

By Paul Goodman | 7 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 286 comments

Is Macron really prepared to go for No Deal? And if so, is Merkel really willing to try and stop him?

Johnson’s mandate, his party’s Brexit take, and his majority would make climbdown far less likely than escalation.

By Paul Goodman | 6 December 2020 at 7:00 am | 217 comments

Don’t stereotype anti-vaxxers. They might not be who you think.

Evidence suggests the Government needs to tackle people’s anxiety, not conspiracy theories.

By Charlotte Gill | 5 December 2020 at 8:45 am | 156 comments

Does the UK really have the political will or state capacity to hit Johnson’s ‘ambitious’ Net Zero targets?

Talk of a new industrial revolution is all well and good, but the spirit that delivered the last one seems long gone.

By Henry Hill | 4 December 2020 at 3:00 pm | 41 comments

Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time

Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.

By Paul Goodman | 4 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 61 comments

Our survey. Almost three in five party members back Johnson’s decision about Cummings.

That’s a comfortable majority. But almost three in ten do not – a significant minority. Thirteen per cent don’t know.

By Paul Goodman | 3 December 2020 at 6:40 am | 69 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson stands on the brink of humiliation, but reaches for a recycled joke

Starmer, accused of being a total abstainer, drew blood by recalling how the PM had once run away to Afghanistan.

By Andrew Gimson | 2 December 2020 at 2:06 pm | 10 comments

An Eton mess

One of the school’s teachers has been fired for making a video about differences between men and women.

By Charlotte Gill | 2 December 2020 at 10:00 am | 70 comments

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