How did His Majesty’s Government get itself in such an integrity-destroying tangle over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as Ambassador to the USA? The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, 10 ...

For years, our political opponent, especially the hypocritical Labour party, have lambasted us for our role in tuition fees during the coalition, conveniently overlooking Labour’s role of introducing ...

Responding to an embargoed report by the Royal College of Nursing about a falling number of applications for nursing courses, with over 1,000 fewer people applying to study nursing in 2025 compared to ...

The Lords get a week off from debating Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – it’ll be back next week, apparently. Three weeks ago, I suggested that the only real positive I could draw from this ...

English football likes to think of itself as the most competitive, compelling league system in the world. And in many ways, the Premier League still delivers on that promise every weekend. But ...

Imagine the UK economy suddenly becoming £180 billion richer every single year – not as a one‑off sugar rush, but as a permanent, compounding uplift. That is what rejoining the European Union could ...

Energy Security. The Ukraine War made it a hot topic for a Europe dependent on Russian oil and gas. The Iran War - alongside the climate change debate -  has revived the issue for the rest of the ...

I’ve been doing European politics with the Liberal Democrats on and off since 1989, long enough to know that it’s always worth waiting a little before declaring that a change of government is good ...

Despite it being more than two years away, there is a great deal of interest in the 2028 US presidential election. As such, there is fierce speculation about who the Democrats’ candidate will be. Whil ...

There were two principal council by-elections this week, both of which had a Liberal Democrat candidate on the ballot. Salford City Council, Barton & Winton The first by-election of the week took ...

What just happened at Westminster? Does anyone else think Keir Starmer played MPs and the media like a violin this week? On Monday, I thought at least one MP would ask the simple and obvious question.

Few institutions define modern Britain as strongly as the National Health Service. Created in 1948 under the leadership of Aneurin Bevan, the NHS was founded on a simple but powerful promise: ...