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How Jeremy Hunt survived the breaking of the Blue Wall
The New Statesman· 2 days ago“This is the Holy Grail,” one Lib Dem told me as we sat waiting for the count in Godalming and Ash....
How bad can it get for the Conservatives?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWhen the General Election was called I reckoned that the Conservatives were just a margin of error from oblivion. Canada in 1993 – where the...
Rishi Sunak has lost the argument on growth
The New Statesman· 5 days agoLabour’s focus on economic progress has paid off.
Paul Goodman: “The Tory divide is between serious and unserious”
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWhat is to become of the Conservative Party? As voters head to the polls in an election widely...
The young prole rebels of Dexys Midnight Runners
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOne starts this book at the back, like a Japanese novel, because the author has tracked down all 24 living members of Dexys Midnight Runners, leaving...
The Macron era is over
The New Statesman· 6 days agoIt is going to get worse for Emmanuel Macron. When the polls were already looking bad ahead of the first-round parliamentary vote on 30 June, his last...
The not quite moving right show
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved...
Keir Starmer appoints a continuity cabinet
The New Statesman· 22 hours agoThere are few surprises, as Labour opts for stability over flare.
Where next for the Tories?
The New Statesman· 1 day agoIt ended as it began: with Rishi Sunak standing outside 10 Downing Street in the rain. When he announced the election six weeks ago, Sunak gave the...
Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 5 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
