Outlasted by a lettuce. What comes next?
Freya Harrington discusses the resignation of Liz Truss and the imminent Conservative Party election.
UK Politics
The Conservative carousel continues
Liz Truss’s government, at six weeks old, is the size of a baked bean. And yet this new beginning has already been marked by many an end. Kwasi Kwarteng suffered…
Boring for Britain: Starmer’s road to No.10
With the Tories tanking in the polls, will the Labour party gain power propelling Sir Kier Starmer to Downing Street? Or will Europe's most successful political party bounce back and…
Obstructing electoral reform: Keir Starmer’s misguided party betrayal or well-judged decision?
Freya Harrington discusses whether Keir Starmer's decision to block Labour's commitment to electoral reform was a betrayal and a mistake or a well-judged decision.
Conservative Party Conference 2022: key take-aways
Kwasi Kwarteng ‘We need to get on and deliver’ the Chancellor insisted, although the collective pronoun sounded considerably weaker following the recent Tory revolt, led by Michael Gove, which led…
Russo-UK relations over the Ukraine Crisis: stalemates, diplomacy, and war on the Eastern Front?
With Foreign Secretary Liz Truss currently in talks with her Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; the question must be asked, can the UK, and the West more broadly, achieve…
Two big Autumn Budget headlines, and what they mean for the UK economy
The Budget, also known as the Financial statement, is an annual statement given in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (currently Rishi Sunak).Its contents are the…
Politics is a lot like football? I wish.
Jack Newbury explores what free-markets could learn from football.
Have the Tories become too out of touch?
As the Conservative Party conference drew to a close in Manchester, it was apparent that the message the Tories wished to drive home above all else is this: levelling up…
Will the G7 Survive the 2020s?
Whilst this year’s G7 has showed that Western democracies can still come together for productive discussions, it is hard to deny the role of the pandemic in providing attendees an…