Sean O’Grady looks at the rumours that Labour will seek to make savings by reintroducing means-testing for primary-age ...

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Kemi Badenoch once said that she would play Taylor Swift at her victory party if she won the Conservative  leadership. One ...

Liz Kendall’s welfare cuts this week exposed an underlying tension in the Labour Party between fiscal necessity and political ...

Returning to The White Bear Theatre after a hugely successful run in December 2024, we are invited to enter the weird, dystopian world of Liz Truss; the shortes ...

T HERE’S an old, perhaps apocryphal, story told about Michael D Higgins, long before his presidency, which those who read ...

Kemi Badenoch rose from humble beginnings in Nigeria to become Britain's first Black opposition leader and Conservative Party ...

Kemi Badenoch didn’t say all that much in her speech, beyond rehashing her upbringing in Nigeria and appreciation of Margaret Thatcher. No doubt she was saving her best lines for today, when she will ...

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Some Tories even detect the language of Liz Truss and her attacks on “the blob” in ... will start to detect the echo of Margaret Thatcher in his determination to take the tough decisions that others ...

The moves have already triggered angry pushback from Whitehall unions, who argue that the civil service has been stretched ...