Westminster is broken
Ian Dunt’s new book reveals Britain as a country of inept civil servants, deluded ministers, blinkered journalists and unscrutinised power.
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“Lord Dacre”? Does Richard Sharp know something we don’t?
The BBC’s under-fire chairman may have inadvertently suggested a peerage for the Daily Mail editor is back on the cards.
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Can we stop the government criminalising protest? With Jodie Beck of Liberty
The Public Order Bill is a worrying assault on basic freedoms.
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Did the Speaker overstep when he criticised Labour’s plans to abolish the House of Lords?
Lindsay Hoyle has raised eyebrows by commenting on a party political issue.
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Tory MP Stuart Andrew finds himself an unlikely hero of the left
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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There’s plenty of ways to reform the House of Lords. Just look at Europe
To listen to the British elite you’d think the only choices were the UK’s semi-medieval aberration or US Senate-style deadlock.
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Growth through devolution will be Labour’s election pitch
The question is whether wrapping green policy, levelling up and regional power into one is comprehensible.
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Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs
Too much of our political class has become timid or borderline corrupt. It’s time to redistribute power and abolish the…
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