Simon Heffer

Articles by Simon Heffer

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Shape up or ship out, Portillo

  • 11 December 2000

The shadow chancellor is clearly in a state, but the Tories can't afford to offer him much sympathy.

Hague's manifesto nightmare

  • 18 September 2000

The Tories believe in Britain, we are told. But is there anything else ? Simon Heffer finds few clues in their latest offering

She gleamed, and her red leather rippled invitingly. I zipped her up in a plastic bubble

  • 21 August 2000

The party in the closet

  • 14 August 2000

Many top Tories are a lot more liberal about homosexuality than they dare admit to their grass-root supporters, believes Simon Heffer

Will the Tories harden on the euro?

  • 17 July 2000

Hague is under pressure to declare the single currency a constitutional issue and to say he will never enter it. Simon Hefferreports

Now Hague can set the political agenda

  • 08 May 2000

Simon Heffer sees hope for the Tories if their leader can sound like a 19th century Manchester liberal

Portillo's Militant Tendency

  • 14 February 2000

Simon Heffer reveals how the new Shadow Chancellor's devotees seek to purge the Tory party of anyone opposed to their hero's takeover

Hague gives Labour a perfect target

  • 07 February 2000

Michael Portillo, symbol of all that the voters hate about the Tories, now has to shadow Gordon Brown. How very clever of the Tory leader!

Hague must sack his useless aides

  • 10 January 2000

Simon Hefferadvises the Tory leader to woo NHS workers and teachers, and to swing the axe

The epitome of English geniality

  • 20 December 1999

New Statesman Christmas - He made 54 films, including the most famous portrayal of Scrooge. Simon Hefferpays tribute to Alastair Sim, a comic genius

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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