James Heale and Katy Balls of the Spectator and Paul Goodman in conversation about today’s political news.
James Heale and Katy Balls of the Spectator and Paul Goodman in conversation about today’s political news.
Our Editor in conversation with Katy Balls and James Heale about yesterday’s Commons statement on the Middle East.
Our editor in conversation with Katy Balls and James Heale of the Spectator about schools, bubbly concrete and Gillian Keegan.
Our editor in conversation with Katy Balls of the Spectator about the significance of the Conservative Deputy Chairman.
“There’s been a clear trend, over a long time, for MPs to be local champions, rather than distant representatives of capital or labour in Westminster.”
Our deputy editor joins the Institute for Government to talk about Thames Water, Net Zero, and Boris Johnson’s new column.
Our Editor on the Privileges Committee inquiry into the former Prime Minister – and why he thinks it would have been better not to hold it.
Our editor speaks to the Today programme about how the Conservative Party should handle the former prime minister.
What does conservatism look like in a future where rising burdens on the State make low-tax politics impossible to deliver?
Plus: How a Remain win in the referendum would have given us Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – and why “Putin probably would have succeeded” in invading Ukraine.
Rees-Mogg on Cameron, Vote Leave, No Deal, May’s Deal, Johnson’s Deal, Gove’s leadership bid – and whether a Remain view of Britain shaped the reception of Kwarteng’s mini-Budget.
Plus: How the Tory “nimby tendency” killed housing reform. Why leadership contest this year would be “completely scatty”. And those who “scribble” criticism of Johnson are “fundamentally dull”.
Our interviewee on why he regrets the top rate tax U-turn, backs the radical abolition of tax reliefs, and thinks Chief Whips “can’t resign, really” – as he recalls the fracking vote.
Our interviewee on what went wrong – featuring Boris Johnson, the Bank of England, the OBR, pension funds, Kit Malthouse, why the Covid and energy support schemes were justified…and where the Government didn’t act urgently enough.