I suppose it's a sign of the times that a measure of Labour underperformance would be a swing of less than 21.3%. (View Post)

The fact that a prime minister can lay himself open to a charge of contempt of court in a major speech, every word of which must have been weighed in advance, must say something about the calibre of … (View Post)

If Sunak wants to attract RefUK supporters, the smoking ban looks like a pretty big blunder. If it's correct that it's not going to be whipped, that must be because Sunak realises that the Right won'… (View Post)

I wonder if anyone will be able to get to the bottom of whether a decision had secretly been made to cancel the project before those £300m of contracts were handed out. If so, I wish Sunak could be s… (View Post)

They don't need actually to do any of this stuff. They just need a fig leaf that won't entirely wither away before the election. (View Post)