Sunak and Sturgeon. His part in her downfall.
Paul Goodman
“Few at the start of the year would have expected her resignation, either this early during it or indeed at all. Sunak’s outmaneuvering of her may not be recognised, but is real nonetheless.”
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Henry Hill
“A litany of domestic failures and the murky state of SNP finances are all possible factors. But his shattering the illusion that the Tories could not win a constitutional fight seems to have tipped the balance.”
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Net Zero is dead. Long live Energy Security?
William Atkinson
“Johnson’s defenestration and the war in Ukraine have fatally undermined the push for decarbonisation. But increasing our domestic energy supply will prove just as difficult.”
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Vulnerable children. The tragedy of the Tavistock and the triumph of time.
Andrew Gimson
“I felt depressed that it had taken over 20 years for these grievous mistakes to be rectified. But I think I have described how, with infuriating slowness, politics does sometimes work.”
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London Conservatives hope to make the 2024 Mayoral election a referendum on ULEZ expansion
Harry Phibbs
“Assembly members, council leaders, and MPs have noted the strength of feeling in their inboxes and on the doorstep. The issue stands out amidst a general climate of apathy.”
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Failure to take action on the migrant hotel crisis isn’t compassionate. It’s pathological altruism.
Poppy Coburn
“Ironically enough, Nandy neglected to mention that she herself had said in 2021 that she was “appalled” that a hotel in her constituency was being used to accommodate asylum-seekers.”
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Sunak’s departmental changes. Why hasn’t the new Science ministry taken on universities?
Lord Willetts
“The Education Department treats universities like poorly performing secondary schools, and now intervenes in them so much that the OHNS may well propose bringing them into the public sector.”
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Finding a solution for Northern Ireland, not just a Protocol deal, is possible
Roderick Crawford
“A solution that addresses unionist concerns and wins back cross-community consensus for any new governance framework is the only way to achieve the aims of the Protocol that the EU and UK signed up for in the first place.”
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The state sector would pay the price for Starmer’s short-sighted tax raid on private schools
Chloe Dobbs
“The Labour leader has completely failed to factor into his sums the huge costs of displacing fee-paying pupils by forcing up the cost of their schooling.”
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Lord Ashcroft
“By 50 per cent to 28 per cent, Scottish voters said they would rather have a law made in Westminister that they agreed with than a law made in Scotland that they disagreed with. “