i morning briefing: Can middle-class woes annihilate the Tories?
Rishi Sunak faces potentially bruising by-elections at a time when his popularity is at an all-time low, and amid pressure to bring inflation down
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Rishi Sunak faces potentially bruising by-elections at a time when his popularity is at an all-time low, and amid pressure to bring inflation down
Labour is building closer links with the academies sector and taking soundings from a prominent think tank with strong ties to the Conservatives
Gordon Brown. David Blunkett. Robin Cook. Margaret Beckett. Mo Mowlam. Jack Straw. John Prescott. Tony Blair’s first cabinet in had some truly magnificent big beasts in it — and the voters knew it. Indeed, I feel confident that many of these towering figures were household names even before New Labour’s famous 1997 landslide.
In Westminster, you can almost feel the power slipping away from Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives. Every week I have lots of meetings with members of the political, policy and media classes, because — and this is quite the mea culpa — a lot of my day-to-day work happens inside the Westminster bubble. Thankfully, my job
It has recently become close to impossible to turn on the news and not hear the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, either apologising for something