Vox Pub in Sidcup: “I think that Boris will get in and Labour will have to have a rethink”.

Voters at this week’s by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup are angry with the Prime Minister, but do not appear to have settled on anyone better.

Ryan Bourne: It’ll take decades, not years, to determine whether Brexit was a success

Leavers and Remainers have been premature to judge this major constitutional change.

Peter Franklin: The growing threat from the Green Party

Ardingly & Balcombe, Aldeburgh & Leiston, Downs North; Horndean Downs, Brundall: what might all these local government losses have in common?

Daniel Hannan: Forget Rayner and ‘scum’. It was Reeves’ interview this week that revealed why Labour is unelectable.

Here, in a nutshell, is why Labour is struggling to make progress. Its obsession with identity politics puts it at odds with the majority of British people.

Peter Franklin: Ten reasons why Labour isn’t dead yet

If Conservatives don’t take the Opposition seriously, one can hardly blame them. And yet that could prove to be a big mistake.

James Frayne: Johnson’s headroom to raise taxes, in the wake of the new levy, has been dramatically reduced

Most obviously, this complicates their Net Zero strategy; you would have expected fiscal policy increasingly to have rebalanced towards green taxes.

Kristian Niemietz: Don’t underestimate the political power of the Millennial Socialist

People dismiss this cohort , believing that they’ll grow out of their economic ideals. But it’s a mistake to do so.

Garvan Walshe: Just as in Hong Kong and Belarus, the UK has a duty to stand up for freedom in Tunisia

The most important task is the resolution of the constitutional crisis and a return to the normal democratic process.

Daniel Hannan: We should thank, not demonise, the patriots who donate to political parties

The media has suggested there is something suspect about the Conservative Party’s receipt of private money.

Ferguson got it wrong, but the buck stops with Johnson

Leadership during the pandemic has involved, even more than usual, the strength to put up with uncertainty.

Emily Carver: Young people overwhelmingly think socialism is a good idea. Access to capital is the only way to change that.

Their idealism over this ideology is fairly superficial. Even so, Conservatives must do more to reverse the trend.

Ben Roback: If not Trump, then who will be the next presidential candidate for the Republican Party?

There are several impressive contenders – although the former president is likely to make a return too.

Richard Holden: Levelling up is for voters in the South as well as my constituents in Durham

The Government’s planning proposals haven’t even gone out to consultation yet – and everyone knows that the current system’s broken.

Interview with Dominic Raab: The EU’s approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol is “pretty analogue in a digital age”

The Foreign Secretary contends that by forming an aspirational coalition the Conservatives can gain votes in the North without losing support in the South.

Richard Holden: Improving future pensions – and why our next move should be more help for more young workers.

And we chat to the young waiter, the question I’m asking is: “why wait until young people are 22 for auto-enrolment to begin?”