Local elections live: is Reform unstoppable?
The word ‘unprecedented’ is often overused in politics, but these local elections have proved to be just that. The headline is: sweeping success for Reform. Nigel Farage's 'teal tsunami' comes at the ...
2 Maj 202515min
Local elections: Reform seizes Runcorn in teal tsunami
Votes are being counted across England, but there is a clear early winner from these local elections: Nigel Farage. His party triumphed in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election this morning, overturning ...
2 Maj 202514min
Michael Gove on how to spin a bad election
Voters have gone to the polls today for a historic set of local elections. The polling indicates a rough night for the two main parties and a good showing for Reform, the Lib Dems and the Greens. So b...
1 Maj 202512min
What is Tony Blair up to?
Tony Blair is making waves in Westminster today after his institute published a report on net zero that appears to undermine Ed Miliband and Labour’s green agenda. In his foreword – while not directly...
30 Apr 202514min
Revenge of the centrists: Carney wins in Canada
Mark Carney has won the Canadian election, leading the Liberal Party to a fourth term. Having only been Prime Minister for 6 weeks, succeeding Justin Trudeau, this is an impressive achievement when yo...
29 Apr 202513min
'The spring of discontent'
Are we looking at a spring of discontent? It’s the final push ahead of this week’s local elections, and what Keir Starmer wants to talk about is expanding the NHS app – which he says will cut waiting ...
28 Apr 202511min
‘An era of five-party politics’: John Curtice on the significance of the local elections
Legendary pollster Prof Sir John Curtice joins the Spectator’s deputy political editor James Heale to look ahead to next week’s local elections. The actual number of seats may be small, as John points...
26 Apr 202520min
Is Robert Jenrick on manoeuvres?
Despite this being the week that Kemi Badenoch finally showed some steel in PMQs, it’s Robert Jenrick who has been stealing the headlines. That’s for lots of reasons – mainly his comments about a pote...
25 Apr 202516min
