LATEST POSTS George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Photo: Christopher Pledger) Unless he stands up to the Lib Dems in his Autumn Statement, the economy faces disaster For all the problems facing the Government – Europe, party management, border controls – only one issue fundamentally counts. The success or failure of George Osborne’s economic plan, unveiled last year, will determine whether the Coalition succeeds or, just as likely, fails. If the Chancellor gets it right, David Cameron’s Conservative Party will probably command a majority after the next general election. If Osborne gets it wrong, his friend Cameron will go down in history as an Old Etonian version of Gordon Brown: a one-term prime minister who never won a general election. And this week marks a sombre and very dangerous moment. Eighteen months after David Cameron entered Downing Street, it can be stated with stone…Read More Home Secretary Theresa May and Brodie Clark, the former head of the UK Border Force (Photo: PA) The days are long gone when a Cabinet member would take the blame as well as the praise It is almost 30 years since a British politician last resigned on a matter of honour. That was Lord Carrington, who insisted on taking the responsibility for British unpreparedness ahead of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. In truth, Peter Carrington was not even remotely at fault for the capture of this remote British dependency, and everybody knew it. But he understood that the code of ministerial responsibility held that ministers were responsible to Parliament for the failures and successes of the department under their control. Mrs Thatcher tried to change his mind and make him stay, but he refused to do so. Compare and contrast the exemplary… Read More The main parties’ cosy alliance is about to be blown apart by Nigel Farage’s Eurosceptics Nigel Farage's Ukip are riding high in the polls The modern history of the Conservative Party has been poorly understood, mainly because it has been written by the winner – the modernising faction that undermined the leadership of William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith before seizing control after the 2005 election defeat. These modernisers like to portray recent Tory history as a victory for change, pragmatism, progress and sanity. But this relentlessly optimistic account ignores the central truth: the Conservative Party formally split in the decade that followed the political assassination of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The first manifestation of this split was the creation of the Anti-Federalist League by the distinguished historian Alan Sked… Read MoreThe fate of this Government is now in George Osborne's hands
Theresa May’s attempts to pass the buck make for a distressing spectacle
As the landscape starts to shift, Ukip can create political havoc
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