If some horrendous human rights abuse were uncovered in Dubai, and the Telegraph or Spectator neglected to cover it fully and frankly, competitors would be gifted the ultimate competitive advantage.
Our deputy editor talks to Michael Portillo about the proposed purchase of the Daily Telegraph and Spectator by a financial alliance linked to the government of Abu Dhabi.
The involvement of a fund linked to the Emirati government in a proposed purchase of the Spectator and Telegraph titles has sparked concern amongst Conservative MPs.
Our editor in conversation with Katy Balls and James Heale of the Spectator about schools, bubbly concrete and Gillian Keegan.
Our editor in conversation with Katy Balls of the Spectator about the significance of the Conservative Deputy Chairman.
“There’s been a clear trend, over a long time, for MPs to be local champions, rather than distant representatives of capital or labour in Westminster.”
Our Editor on the Privileges Committee inquiry into the former Prime Minister – and why he thinks it would have been better not to hold it.
On some issues, he got it wrong. On other issues, he got it right but is misrepresented by some of his cheerleaders. And on other issues, he was right in the context of the time but circumstances have changed.
He was the most formidable Chancellor of the Twentieth Century and a titan of the modern Conservative Party – voting for Sunak and endorsing his approach in last summer’s Tory leadership election.,
Labour like to say we are the only major economy whose GDP has not recovered to prepandemic levels. But looking at GDP at constant prices in national currency the UK economy in 2022, according to the IMF, was one per cent bigger than in 2019.
He will have believed he had no need to define himself more clearly when his poll ratings were high. So now other people are doing it for him.
One can be confident that arguments to the contrary are the sort of defeatist doom-mongering up with which Johnson will not put.
Never underestimate the power of Labour. Its message of helping the underdog and the poor is enduring, still popular and extremely potent.
Whatever their political colours, people’s view of the issue looks clear. We will await the verdict of the Lords and the Secretary of State with interest.