How Jeremy Corbyn will handle the whole “Britain is a constitutional monarchy” thing continues to roll on as an ongoing concern. As the leader of the opposition, Corbyn has been invited to a banquet Her Majesty is holding at Buckingham Palace; he was apparently thinking of sending someone in his place. Instead, he’s decided to […]

Today is Jeremy Corbyn’s second crack at Prime Minister’s Questions. Coming at a time when the Labour Party are having an internal squabble about….well, everything really, it would a grand moment for Jeremy to inflict some damage on the PM. But we are pretty much guaranteed that won’t happen. Mostly due to what we saw […]

John McDonnell has now decided, rather infamously, that Osborne’s fiscal charter isn’t kosher after all. At Labour conference, the shadow chancellor said he would commit Labour to vote for the government’s fiscal rules. He fudged things a lot, saying that while Labour would go along with the chancellor’s basic idea of balancing the books, that […]

The Out campaign launched last Friday (well, one of the Out campaigns anyhow); today, it is the In campaign’s turn. It goes without saying that I wish them all the success and luck in the world. Britain since 2010 has gone from being a country that almost never had referenda to one going through an […]

If you trawl this very website, you will be able to see various strains of extremely wishful thinking regarding the Liberal Democrats’ electoral prospects come May 7th, 2015, all written prior to that day, obviously. Like when I thought the party would get 17% of the vote. Or speculated on the possibility of 45 seats. […]

Some would argue that my headline is misleading: that UKIP have already had electoral success. The 2014 Euros? Yes, but that was sort of a protest vote. In December of that same year, six months out from the general election, I predicted that UKIP would end up with one seat, that being Douglas Carswell’s, post […]

I was going to do this article about the election result scenarios for all of the relatively major parties in the UK, but then realised I was falling into the “BBC leaders debates” trap of having to focus on about eight of them at least. So I thought, let’s stick to the big two; that […]

The latest controversy involving Jeremy Corbyn comes one day after David Cameron alluded to him in his conference leader speech as a terrorist-loving, Britain hater. The incident in question involves Corbyn rejecting an invite from the Queen to be sworn in by her to the Privy Council. Jeremy has cited “prior engagements” as his reason […]

The weather has been mostly good. As it had been in Brighton. Such a contrast to the way things feel on the ground; politically speaking, everything feels very cloudy indeed. The future of Britain in the EU, and by extension the very future of the UK itself, is in doubt. We can only hope the […]

Bringing Tony Blair into any political discussion these days is asking for trouble, but he does really belong in this one: as the guy who managed to get the Labour Party three parliamentary majorities in a row, a feat extremely likely to never be repeated, his achievement is instructive. How does Labour get back into […]