Is Labour turning blue?
While we wait for the findings of the Covid Inquiry into the decision-making during the pandemic, Shabana Mahmood has given a statement in the Commons outlining further details of Labour’s migration c...
20 Nov 202511min
PMQs: Labour's 'dog whistle politics'
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch managed to suggest the Budget had already happened, while Starmer ...
19 Nov 202510min
Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again
Economics editor Michael Simmons and Yvette Cooper's former adviser Danny Shaw join Patrick Gibbons to react to the Home Secretary's plans for asylum reform. Shabana Mahmood's direct communication sty...
18 Nov 202518min
Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system
This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system. The headline changes proposed by Shabana Mahmood have been well briefed in the weeken...
17 Nov 202514min
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.Labour are set to announce a raft of new measures to fix an asylum system the home secretary says is 'broken'. But do they go f...
16 Nov 202512min
Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons
Britain’s prisons are a legislative problem that has beset successive governments. New revelations show 91 accidental early releases in just six months, the latest in a growing pattern of administrati...
15 Nov 202515min
What is going on in the Treasury!?
With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At the beginning of the week, the established consensus in Westminster was that the base rat...
14 Nov 202514min
Politics or economics – which is Labour worst at?
It’s been another bruising week for the British economy. New GDP figures reveal that growth has almost flatlined, inching up by just 0.1 per cent between July and August – a sign, many fear, that the ...
13 Nov 202510min
