If a Tory MP can earn more outside the Commons in the law or a company board or as a lobbyist maybe they will jump before pushed if in a marginal seat or if in a safe seat and they were a Minister or… (View Post)

Slashing taxes but not cutting spending and crashing the markets and sterling and leading to surging interest and mortgage rates was very much the fault of Truss and Kwarteng however (View Post)

I doubt the talent pipeline for Labour MPs was much better in the Ed Miliband and Corbyn years and they are likely to comprise the main pool for the next Cabinet (View Post)

Sterling collapsed to its lowest level in modern times after the Kwarteng budget and the UK's borrowing costs to their highest levels since 2008 for starters (View Post)

Labour held Kingswood from 1992 to 2010 so Labour will almost certainly gain the seat in the by election (View Post)