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Covid report: ‘a £200 million I told you so’
Yesterday we had the publication of the second module of the Covid Inquiry on the decision-making at the heart of government. It confirmed a toxic an…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Is Labour turning blue?
While we wait for the findings of the Covid Inquiry into the decision-making during the pandemic, Shabana Mahmood has given a statement in the Common…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
PMQs: Labour's 'dog whistle politics'
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch managed to sugg…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again
Economics editor Michael Simmons and Yvette Cooper's former adviser Danny Shaw join Patrick Gibbons to react to the Home Secretary's plans for asylum…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system
This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system. The headline changes proposed by S…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Labour are set to announce a raft of new measures to fix an asylum system th…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons
Britain’s prisons are a legislative problem that has beset successive governments. New revelations show 91 accidental early releases in just six mont…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
What is going on in the Treasury!?
With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At the beginning of the week, the establi…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Politics or economics – which is Labour worst at?
It’s been another bruising week for the British economy. New GDP figures reveal that growth has almost flatlined, inching up by just 0.1 per cent bet…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Wes for PM?
Conspiracy or cock-up? Westminster is abuzz after what appears to be a plan to decapitate Wes Streeting has spectacularly backfired. A flurry of late…
11 months, 4 weeks ago