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What does Theresa May want?
Theresa May's new book, Abuse of Power, will not be a gossip-fuelled account of her time in No. 10. Instead, it'll be an account of how powerful people make mistakes, and how institutions corrupt. Wh…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Who is Claire Coutinho?
Rishi Sunak may have shelved his plan for a big reshuffle but we have had some cabinet changes today. Grant Shapps has taken his fifth cabinet position in one year, replacing Ben Wallace as Defence S…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Can Cleverly handle China?
James Cleverly is in Beijing, a decision which he has been pushed to defend in a clip given to the BBC. Much has changed in the five years since a British foreign secretary last visited China. What's…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Who will take Nadine Dorries’s seat?
Nadine Dorries’s seat in Mid Bedfordshire has a majority of 25,000. With the Boris Johnson ally now leaving Parliament, the seat is set to be a three-way race between the Tories, Labour and the Liber…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Does Nadine Dorries have a point?
Nadine Dorries resigned from Parliament over the weekend, writing in a letter to Rishi Sunak that the Conservatives have been ‘corrupted’, and accusing the Prime Minister of ‘opening the gates to whi…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
The problem with the Tories’ ‘local heroes’
Are the Tories right to pick local candidates, over Westminster favourites, to be their next generation of MPs?
Cindy Yu speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Heale.
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Why is Rishi delaying his reshuffle?
Rishi Sunak is reportedly going to delay a planned major reshuffle. A Cabinet switch-up was expected next month, but it now seems that only ministers like Ben Wallace, who has already indicated that …
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Would Starmer’s government have any cash to spend?
If Labour wins the next election, will Keir Starmer have any money to spend on his programme of government? In a piece for the Times yesterday, journalist Philip Collins says it won't, and he thinks …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Should Rishi host MBS?
Downing Street has extended an invite to Mohammed bin Salman to visit the UK in Autumn. Five years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, is it time to let Saudi Arabia in from the cold?
Fraser Nelson…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Results day: is the worst of the pandemic over for students?
As A-level students receive their exam results, Cindy Yu speaks to Isabel Hardman and Mary Curnock Cook who is the former chief executive of UCAS. In a bid to curb recent grade inflation, fewer of th…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago