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Posts Tagged: Matthew Parris

This hatchet man in a hurry casts no new light on Johnson, except to show him as a vulnerable child

An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 October 2020 | 20 comments

Johnson benefits from the scorn of critics such as Parris, for it suggests the Prime Minister is still an outsider

I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 July 2020 | 120 comments

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

By Andrew Gimson | 18 July 2019 | 261 comments

Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

By Andrew Gimson | 29 June 2019 | 164 comments

Garvan Walshe: How Strache and Farage use socialist techniques to con Tories

They’ve taken the central political technique of this form of populism — promising to spend other people’s money — and privatised it.

By Garvan Walshe | 23 May 2019 | 123 comments

Profile: Nimble, eager to please, unembarrassable. The inconstant Gardiner, capable of demolishing Labour’s Brexit policy in seconds.

Tied to no faction, former Blair backer turned Corbyn supporter, the shadow Trade Secretary is a law unto himself.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 March 2019 | 13 comments

Interview: Francois insists that the ERG wants the backstop ditched altogether – not tweaked

“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”

By Andrew Gimson | 23 January 2019 | 110 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

Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.

By Iain Dale | 1 October 2018 | 23 comments

Inside the minds of the Conservative grassroots

We know more today than we did yesterday – and we aim to know still more tomorrow.

By Mark Wallace | 4 August 2018 | 201 comments

Profile: Andy Street, champion of John Lewis conservatism

His understated, unpretentious, unexciting style of politics works well in the context of local government. Could it be transposed to Westminster?

By Andrew Gimson | 28 June 2018 | 18 comments

Nicky Morgan: Chope’s upskirting ban veto, and no-deal hard Brexiteers – fellow travellers in the campaign to wreck modernisation

It says it all, really, that an older male Tory MP should object to outlawing a sexual crime which makes use of twenty-first century technology.

By Nicky Morgan MP | 18 June 2018 | 290 comments

Iain Dale: Gammon if you think you’re hard enough. The patronising Remainers who’ve lost but can’t move on.

Plus: Boles was right (first time round) on Gaza. The Dambusters raid anniversary. A Tory poll lead. Plus: a man and a woman will marry in Windsor on Saturday.

By Iain Dale | 18 May 2018 | 169 comments

Past scandals show that Prime Ministers must uphold respectability – or are lost

But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.

By Andrew Gimson | 4 November 2017 | 45 comments

Jacob Rees-Mogg tops our Next Tory Leader survey of Party members

In the absence of anyone that party members find convincing, he is the beneficiary of a protest vote – boosted by an element of media hype.

By Paul Goodman | 5 September 2017 | 211 comments

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