Boris Johnson's resignation: yesterday's man or ready for a comeback?
Luke Alsford analyses Number 10's attempt to write off Boris Johnson and consider's Johnson's enduring political appeal to Conservatives.
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My analysis and comment articles covering British politics.
Why Suella's political survival is about more than appeasing the Tory right
Luke Alsford examines what sets apart Suella Braverman from recently ejected cabinet ministers and argues that the reasons for her political longevity are multifaceted
Why Keir Starmer's tuition fees U-turn shows he wants to fight a cost-of-living election
If Keir Starmer has indeed developed one skill during his tenure as Labour leader that is necessary for life in Number 10, it is a knack for knowing when to drop bad news. In a week consisting of council elections followed by a coronation, Starmer will have hoped that his blink-and-you-miss-it U-turn on a previous promise to abolish university tuition fees would fly by undetected by voters. Not least because it did not go unnoticed by Labour’s political opponenets, who have already been lining u
Tactical voting and the battle to save the union
Unionism in Scotland is at a crossroads and, alongside it, so are the Scottish Conservatives. This was no more apparent than in the muffled, cross-border dispute between Douglas Ross, the Scottish Tory leader and MP, and his Westminster counterparts. In an eyebrow-raising comment, Ross suggested that unionist voters should “look beyond their own narrow party” and use tactical voting to endorse candidates most likely to defeat the SNP. After the Conservatives south of the border clapped back that
The ‘B word’: Why Sunak and Starmer hope Brexit is finished business
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer can agree on something, and they want you to agree with them too: Brexit is now over.
Sunak is so confident of this fact that his own minister, Steve Baker, supposedly disbanded the hard-line Tory Eurosceptic European Research Group's WhatsApp group chat, as a declaration of Brexit's completion. The cause for celebration? The passing of the Windsor Framework into law. The EU-UK agreement, purporting to solve the once thorny issue of Northern Ireland's relationship w
Sunak is so confident of this fact that his own minister, Steve Baker, supposedly disbanded the hard-line Tory Eurosceptic European Research Group's WhatsApp group chat, as a declaration of Brexit's completion. The cause for celebration? The passing of the Windsor Framework into law. The EU-UK agreement, purporting to solve the once thorny issue of Northern Ireland's relationship w
MPs’ second jobs: the battle for ‘real world’ representatives
Luke Alsford analyses the latest scandal over MPs' second jobs and why it represents a fundamental shift in British democracy
Boris Johnson's Partygate showdown: The future direction of British politics is at stake
Boris Johnson is coming up to the bat in the latest innings of the Partygate scandal. On Wednesday 22nd at 14:00, he is to make a live and televised appearance in front of the Commons Privileges Committee that is investigating one central question for the former Prime Minister’s political future: did he deliberately mislead Parliament over denials of covid-lockdown parties in Downing Street? Boris Johnson is not just at facing the prospect of a couple of hours of hostile questions; he risks bein
