Were we right to lock down? Michael Gove vs Toby Young
On 23 March 2020, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the unprecedented decision to put the UK into lockdown. To mark the 5th anniversary of that announcement this weekend, we have brought tog...
22 Mar 202531min
Does Kemi have a plan?
It's been Kemi-takes-action week for the Conservatives, with the leader of the opposition trying to prove that she can – in fact – do policy. She launched a series of policy reviews, which will be del...
21 Mar 202512min
Can Keir trust Macron?
It’s a big day in defence. Keir Starmer began the day in Barrow talking about nuclear subs and will end the day in a meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’ on the outskirts of London. But that coal...
20 Mar 202512min
Spring Statement or ‘Emergency Budget’?
The question that everyone in Westminster wants answered is what will actually be included in next week’s Spring Statement. Previously, the Spring Statement wasn’t looking like much to write home abou...
19 Mar 202511min
Inside Labour's welfare split
This afternoon we had Liz Kendall’s long-awaited address in the Commons on Labour’s plans for welfare reform. The prospect of £5 billion worth of cuts to welfare has split the party in two, with fears...
18 Mar 202514min
Can the Tories save their education legacy?
Bridget Phillipson's schools bill is back in the Commons today. The scope of the legislation is twofold: firstly, looking at the welfare of children in schools and secondly at fundamentally changing t...
17 Mar 202512min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/03/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.NHS England will be demolished as Labour make sweeping changes to the NHS, and cuts are coming to welfare too, with Health Secr...
16 Mar 202513min
Is Keir Starmer a Tory?
Slashing the winter fuel allowance, maintaining the two child benefit cap, cutting international aid, cutting the civil service, axing NHS bureaucracy, possibly slashing welfare expenditure... you'd b...
15 Mar 202518min
