Articles tagged RIshi Sunak:
The End of Tory Days - My Analysis of the By-Election Results
- 17 Feb 2024
This article first appeared on Telegraph Online. Government loses two by-elections. Ordinarily that barely rates a headline. These, however, are not ordinary times. Poll after poll shows Labour heading for victory in the general election, and the results from Wellingborough...
Moyes & Sunak: Brothers From a Different Mother
- 11 Feb 2024
I’m sitting here on my sitting room sofa, a dog either side of me, watching West Ham take an absolute tonking at home to Arsenal. As I write the score is 0-6. What an utter embarrassment. Sunak out! Sorry, I mean Moyes out! Or do I? Because what I am feeling now is the same fe...
A Reflection on the Local Elections
- 7 May 2023
On my local election overnight show on Friday morning I remember saying that all successful prime ministers need to be lucky generals, as Napoleon might have put it. I claimed that Rishi Sunak was indeed a very lucky general given that by Friday evening the whole news agenda w...
Will Liz Truss Read the Writing on the Wall? And Other Pertinent Questions
- 15 Oct 2022
Friday turned out not to be the end for Liz Truss. But it did mark the beginning of the end. And rightly so. I have no idea why people are surprised. Right from the start of the leadership contest I said she was not fit for the job. She is a terrible communicator and has a tin...