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Can you 'take the politics out' of the grooming gangs scandal?
Yesterday Yvette Cooper announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after the Casey Review found that a disproportionate number of A…
1 year, 2 months ago
Grooming gangs: will this inquiry be different?
Following Keir Starmer's decision to call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke in the Commons today abo…
1 year, 2 months ago
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/06/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's politics shows.
The conflict in the Middle-East has entered a dangerous new phase, with Israe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Why is Britain's economy so unhealthy?
The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons is joined by the outgoing boss of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson and the CEO of the R…
1 year, 2 months ago
Israel strikes Iran – how will Iran retaliate?
Israel struck military and nuclear targets in Iran overnight in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has begun further strikes on Fri…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Rachel Reeves’s headroom shrinking?
There were clear winners and losers in Rachel Reeves’s spending review yesterday but some of her announcements around capital spending and investment…
1 year, 2 months ago
Spending review: smoke, mirrors and no strategy
There were few surprises in Rachel Reeves’s spending review today. Health was the big winner, with a £29bn increase in day-to-day spending and £39bn …
1 year, 2 months ago
Labour goes nuclear while Reform turns to coal
Rachel Reeves has pledged a ‘new era of nuclear power’ as the government confirms a £14.2 billion investment in the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffo…
1 year, 2 months ago
Labour try to silence ‘austerity-lite’ accusations
James Nation, formerly a special adviser to Rishi Sunak and now an MD at Forefront Advisers, joins the Spectator’s deputy political editor James Heal…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rupert Lowe on Reform turmoil, Chagos 'treason' and taking the Tory whip
The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove and assistant editor Madeline Grant interview Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth and notorious Westminster provoc…
1 year, 2 months ago