Articles tagged Sajid Javid:
The Consequences of Matt Hancock's Resignation & Have we Reached 'Peak Johnson'?
- 26 Jun 2021
When I woke up at 5.25am on Friday, I checked my phone and saw the front page of The Sun. I actually exclaimed: “F*****g hell”, as opposed to “F*****g hopeless.” I was due on air on Good Morning Britain an hour later with Jacqui Smith. We were both staying in the same hotel so...
My Take on the Reshuffle Fallout
- 16 Feb 2020
It seems the estimable editor of ConservativeHome, Mr Paul Goodman, was the only one to foresee the departure of Sajid Javid as chancellor. That’s why he’s on the big bucks. Clearly Boris and his team thought that Sajid would cave, just as all the other ministers did, who w...
WATCH: My Nine Interviews with the Tory Leadership Candidates
- 19 Jun 2019
The candidates for the Conservative Party leadership will each go head-to-head with LBC’s Iain Dale and the station’s listeners in a series of one-hour programmes this month. In the race to be Prime Minister, the ...
Conservative Party Game of Thrones: Week 1
- 26 May 2019
Each weekend for the duration of this leadershop contest I'll be charting who's up and who's fortunes are on the decline in the Tory Party's equivalent of the Game of Thrones... Boris Johnson - Bookies favourite but will his no deal remarks in Switzerland come back ...
Telegraph Column: Who Will Back Who in the Tory Leadership Race?
- 31 Mar 2019
This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. The task for any leadership candidate is to knock their competitors out one by one. They each need to emerge as the leader of their ‘tribe’. Let’s start with the tribe of ‘hard Brexiteers’. Boris Johnson has been a...
My First EDP/EADT Column: Why Extra Policing Should be Paid For Locally
- 4 Jan 2019
Today marks the publication of my first weekly column for the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times. The papers cover all of Norfolk, Suffolk, Western Cambridgeshire and North Essex. My remit is to write a political column with edge, but with relevance to the...
Poll: Who Would Win a Conservative Party Leadership Contest?
- 8 Dec 2018
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that by this time next week, a Conservative Party leadership contest could be underway. I know, I know, we've been here before, but if the Brexit vote goes ahead on Tuesday, and the government loses by a substantial three figure major...
Who Will be the 'Stop Boris' Candidate?
- 7 Sep 2018
Tom Newton Dunn’s exclusive about Boris Johnson and his wife having split up is notable as it suggests that the story was deliberately put out there in order to avoid it emerging during a leadership contest. Cynical maybe, but also understandable. Whether it will give licence ...