In politics, dogged focus trumps showmanship

The evidence is clear: the Tory Party’s plight can be blamed on the Liz Truss U-turn that exploded its claim to hard-headed competence

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Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

British politics has changed radically, says Josiah Gogarty. The traditional relationship between think tanks, journalists and politicians has broken down, and power is increasingly shaped by “civilia

The Labour administration will reap what it has sown, but Richard Negus spells out what a future government can do to regain the trust of agriculture

A new think tank aims to help a future Reform government be like Gulliver and escape the ties that paralyse the British state