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Bernard Jenkin: For their strategy to work, Ministers will need more than double the number of tracers that they plan to recruit

If only 6,000 people, with 45 contacts each, are infected every day, we will need a capacity of 276,000 tests just to keep up.

By Sir Bernard Jenkin MP | 13 May 2020 | 42 comments

Iain Dale: Hancock’s testing day – and why the difference between a target and a pledge matters

Plus: In my view, there is no case at all to merit a decision to do anything other than keeping the lockdown, maybe with a few tweaks.

By Iain Dale | 1 May 2020 | 78 comments

The campaign, week four. Johnson pushes upwards but so does Corbyn.

The move back to two party politics of 2017 seems to be repeating itself this time round.

By Paul Goodman | 29 November 2019 | 133 comments

Osborne – Brexit’s saviour?

The Fixed Terms Parliament Act may pave the way to delivering Brexit by October 31. And for that, we can thank…

By Paul Goodman | 7 August 2019 | 536 comments

The civil service isn’t neutral. It shouldn’t be, it can’t be.

It must necessarily have a worldview. The question is whether or not this has caught up with the Brexit vote.

By Paul Goodman | 8 July 2019 | 167 comments

Alistair Lexden: Forty years ago, Thatcher was assembling her transformative Government

Disraeli defined conservatism as ‘love of country and an instinct for power’, and her successors should strive for her winning fusion of the two.

By Lord Lexden | 23 May 2019 | 74 comments

Alistair Lexden: I heard the bomb as it exploded. My memories of Airey Neave, for whom I worked.

He was murdered by terrorists 40 years ago today. Now there is a new, exemplary biography of him.

By Lord Lexden | 30 March 2019 | 25 comments

The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.

The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.

By Paul Goodman | 4 January 2019 | 61 comments

May is miscast as Prime Minister because she takes far too little trouble to find the right words

A new study of the 2017 general election shows May failing to insist on a message and a manifesto which supported each other.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 November 2018 | 46 comments

Clegg’s career choice reflects how the House of Lords has become diminished

Parliament is struggling to retain senior figures. New peers should be chosen on their ability to raise the calibre of debate.

By Harry Phibbs | 20 October 2018 | 84 comments

Lewis Baston: A bolder Callaghan would have won the 1978 election

So much of what now appears inevitable could have been very different – at least in the short term.

By Lewis Baston | 21 September 2018 | 4 comments

“Those who threaten our security would like nothing more than to see us fractured.” May’s security speech in Munich speech. Full text.

“If the priority becomes avoiding new cooperation with a country outside the EU, then this will have damaging real world consequences for the security of all our people.”

17 February 2018 | 227 comments

Lewis Baston: Poulson, sleaze, expenses. A history of recent Parliamentary scandals.

In the best of all worlds, standards would be upheld voluntarily. But in the world we have, we seem to need rules – and sometimes to extend them.

By Lewis Baston | 10 November 2017 | 11 comments

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

By Lewis Baston | 11 August 2017 | 27 comments

The political imperative of public empathy

The Prime Minister needs to be more self confident with the media.

By Harry Phibbs | 17 June 2017 | 194 comments

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