Farage and Badenoch’s Iran headache
What does it mean to be an opposition party in a time of geopolitical turmoil?
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What does it mean to be an opposition party in a time of geopolitical turmoil?
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The Tories too often give the impression that they think Reform is right but people should not vote for them.
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Reform are selling a programme of coal-mining and reindustrialisation – one based on fiscal fantasies.
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The Energy Secretary wants to future-proof net zero from the threat of Reform.
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The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election is a microcosm for Britain’s swirling political crises.
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Keir Starmer’s “Project Fear” offensive against Reform UK is not going to stick.
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Nigel Farage’s fiscal arithmetic is as eye-catching as it is unserious.
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Britain’s greatest shapeshifter is struggling to contain his contradictions.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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In a pub in Blackpool, Nigel Farage’s people’s army is doing politics the old-fashioned way.
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The same energy that once fuelled the independence campaign is now behind Reform UK.
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The party will soon discover councils have almost no money left.
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The leader of Reform UK is an extraordinarily protean politician and more pragmatic than is generally understood.
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The Tory press made Farage. Now, like Frankenstein, it is bewildered and menaced by its own creation.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Farage dominates the right and Starmer faces no totemic threat to his left.
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Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.
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Keir Starmer must prove he understands the fury of many voters with his government.
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Nigel Farage’s triumph will intensify divisions within the government over policy and strategy.
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Donald Trump’s chaos gives the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity to move decisively.
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