Miriam Cates: the radical traditionalist
Once a Labour Party member, the devout Christian and anti-woke campaigner is now one of the most controversial Tories in…
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“Red Wall” areas are at the epicentre of “broken Britain”
Research reveals that the constituencies which helped the Tories win their landslide victory are suffering the most.
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Rishi Sunak should take on the immigration fantasists
We need to end the cycle of unrealistic promises followed by cries of betrayal.
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Voters don’t just feel Britain is broken – they feel they’re broken too
Polling shows both middle and working-class people want reform – but they don’t necessarily believe Labour can deliver it.
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Local election results show the Tories are in trouble
Labour’s advances have dented Conservative hopes of a revival under Rishi Sunak.
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The latest HS2 delay shows the Tories are still putting the north second
This decision adds to growing evidence that the government has stopped caring about the Red Wall.
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The West Lancashire by-election shows the Tories’ Red Wall strategy is failing
A 10 per cent swing towards Labour is a foreboding result for Conservative MPs in the north of England.
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Can the Conservatives use football reform to rebuild Red Wall trust?
A new report underlines the sport’s importance in the north of England. For Rishi Sunak, club regulation could be an…
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How Brexit Britain lost a vital asset: space
So-called left behind towns prize more “places to meet” over jobs. In Middlesbrough, they’re opening public living rooms in abandoned…
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Rishi Sunak will further alienate his MPs with his comments about taxation “idiots”
With the Prime Minister refusing to reduce the tax burden and levelling up failing to deliver, Conservatives in both Red…
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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have capitulated to the Brexit zealots
The public now believes that the UK was wrong to leave the EU – but the Conservatives and Labour are…
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Boris Johnson is once again shown the door
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The war on drugs has failed – when will the Tories and Labour accept this?
Britain’s backwards drug laws are causing avoidable deaths, and the public is demanding change.
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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are struggling to convince Red Wall and Blue Wall voters
The remaining leadership candidates do not address the concerns of focus groups – but neither does Keir Starmer.
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The Red Wall wants levelling up, not tax cuts
Leadership contenders forget the Tories were voted in on that condition.
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UK voters “absolutely sick to death” of the culture wars, says Labour’s Louise Haigh
The Wakefield by-election result showed that the Tories’ “attempts to divide” aren’t working, the shadow transport secretary said at the…
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Michael Gove’s Levelling Up plan looks suspiciously familiar
The central plank of Johnsonism has been begged, borrowed and stolen from elsewhere.
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How does Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget affect voters in the Red Wall?
Are the Chancellor’s tax-and-spend plans better for traditional Conservative constituencies or new Tory voters in the north and Midlands?
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