'I used to be Labour. No more.' – who will win Wales?
Is Labour about to lose Wales? That’s what the polling suggests. After 27 years, Wales is seeking change. The beneficiaries look to be the outsiders, Plaid Cymru and Reform UK. Why is it this moment i...
25 Apr 13min
Is Lord Hermer fit to be Attorney General?
The long-debated assisted dying bill is expected to fail in the House of Lords today – described by the bill's leading advocate Lord Falconer as failing 'not on its merits' but 'due to procedural wran...
24 Apr 14min
‘Worse than the worst of Boris Johnson’ – are Labour turning on Starmer?
Somewhere in the documents surrounding Peter Mandelson’s ambassadorial appointment, the Spectator's political editor Tim Shipman reveals, is a text Keir Starmer sent the night before the announcement....
23 Apr 19min
'When, not if' – who will move against Starmer?
It will come as no surprise that Keir Starmer appears to have heard a very different evidence session from Sir Olly Robbins to the one everyone else thought the ex Foreign Office mandarin gave yesterd...
22 Apr 11min
Why Olly Robbins testimony is 'quietly devastating' for Starmer
'The most gripping testimony' since Dominic Cummings which could prove 'extraordinary and quietly devastating' for Keir Starmer. That's the verdict of the Spectator's political editor Tim Shipman foll...
21 Apr 14min
'They expect us to believe this?' – Starmer’s Mandelson story doesn’t add up
Westminster is braced ahead of two key interventions in the Mandelson scandal. This afternoon, the prime minister will give a statement in which we understand he will convey his ‘anger’ at being kept ...
20 Apr 20min
Why the Lib Dems are aiming for second – with Al Pinkerton MP & Mark Pack
Liberal Democrat peer Mark Pack and MP for Surrey Heath Al Pinkerton join James Heale to explain that it is a matter of 'when not if' the party become the second biggest in local government. Overtakin...
19 Apr 16min
Danny Kruger: Reform’s plan to tear up the system
Danny Kruger joins James Heale to set out Reform’s plan to overhaul the British state – from taking on the civil service to restoring ministerial control – and why he believes the system will resist c...
18 Apr 28min
