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If the Tories had set out in government with the aim of deliberately making themselves unpopular, they might not have proceeded very differently.
12 April 1913
I used to be petrified of the Staggers. I mean it.
James Graham’s play This House (currently at the National Theatre) shows the whittling away of the 1974-79 Labour government’s majority.
Ever since the Thatcher era, British politics has been defined by forms of economic and social liberalism.
One thing is certain in any discussion of energy policy: bills are going up, regardless of how Britain generates electricity – coal, gas, nuclear, wind, wave, solar . . .
The quality that David Cameron and George Osborne want voters to admire most in a politician is the ability to make hard choices.
If tomorrow, God forbid, I were to cause the death of an innocent man with my car, minutes after sending a series of texts on my mobile phone, I’m guessing I’d spend the rest of my life
Confronted by the threat of a third recession in four years, George Osborne’s response has largely been one of fatalism: after years of New Labour excess, we must resign ourselves to a sustai
Opponents of George Osborne’s austerity programme have at last acquired what they had lacked until now: an ally at the top of government.
“Don’t make a fuss!” was the Daily Mail’s front-page headline, paraphrasing the mon - arch’s instruction when she needed hospitalisation after repeated dashes
Harold Wilson was wrong. A week is just as long in politics as anywhere else.
Would the UK Independence Party shut up shop if it achieved its goal of pulling Britain out of the European Union? Plainly not.