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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    UK schools
    Sunak’s worthy A-level reforms held back by fantasies on tax

    While there is cross-party support for a ‘British baccalaureate’, PM is yet to get ball rolling in any meaningful way

    Rishi Sunak being interviewed in a school
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Tories are stuck in a short- and long-term crisis

    Periods of infighting can be a damaging but necessary step in the timeline of political parties

    Rishi Sunak leaves after a speech
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Rishi Sunak
    Sunak’s net zero motives are ideological, not electoral

    Retreating from 2019 pledge takes Tories away from election-winning territory — and towards the wrecking yard

    Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Liz Truss
    Truss ducks her thorniest problem in bid to stay relevant

    Blaming external forces becomes especially attractive in opposition and sidesteps confronting internal divisions

    Liz Truss gives a speech
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Labour’s fudging on HS2 tells us a lot about its election priorities

    Starmer’s time as leader of the opposition offers the template he wants to follow in securing a mandate

    Keir Starmer at a press conference at the Labour party headquarters in March 2023
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    UK immigration
    Starmer prioritises control over unrealistic aim of ‘stopping the boats’

    Also in this newsletter, Rishi Sunak needs to rely on opposition party votes occasionally if he wants to make his mark

    A border force boat assists people travelling by small boat at sea
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    The post-Sunak Tory party belongs to the right

    Centre-right leadership contenders who claim they can win elections will seem less convincing after a painful defeat

    Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, prime minister Rishi Sunak, trade secretary Kemi Badenoch and home secretary Suella Braverman during Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak must not avoid arguing with his party as his star plummets

    Also in this newsletter, Britain’s botched hosting of two Soviet dignitaries in 1956

    Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    UK politics
    What the spy saga reveals about UK-China relations

    The inevitable consequence of events will mean further demands for greater distance

    An FT montage of the Houses of Parliament, a Chinese flag in the background and the shadow of a person in the foreground
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak’s foreign policy reset overshadowed by espionage

    A parliamentary researcher’s arrest on suspicion of spying for Beijing is damaging the PM’s agenda

    The shadow of a person in front of parliament buildings in Westminster, London
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    London mayoral election
    London’s tightening mayoral race offers window into future of road charges

    Opposing schemes such as Ulez will become more popular, though the politics of it in the capital are not straightforward

    Some cars on a road with a green Ulez sign
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Rishi Sunak
    Understatement is getting Sunak nowhere

    Ahead of G20 India trip PM squanders chance to show how he embodies change, though trumpeting Horizon deal isn’t the answer

    Rishi Sunak
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    UK local government finance
    Not all English councils will survive government’s long funding squeeze

    Once hailed as an exemplary authority, Birmingham’s history of poor governance has left it facing big bills

    Statue of Queen Victoria with the Council House behind it in Birmingham, England
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Starmer’s battle-ready cabinet restores institutional memory

    Shake-up brings in experienced players and is designed to sharpen party’s attack operation, particularly on crime

    Keir Starmer, left, and Peter Kyle who was appointed yesterday as shadow secretary for science, innovation and technology
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    UK schools
    School building closures are political disaster for Sunak’s government

    Former top civil servant’s claim PM had cut funding to fix school problems when chancellor makes it a personal problem too

    Rishi Sunak in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    UK politics
    Mini shake-up sharpens Sunak’s defences

    Willing to show his loyalty in public, new defence secretary Grant Shapps fills a gap in PM’s armoury

    Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Brexit
    Brexit scepticism may ease under Labour as rejoiners face hard yards

    Pro-European movement may lose strength under a Starmer government pushing for closer ties to bloc

    A delegate holds a Union Jack flag umbrella at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, 2019
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    UK foreign policy
    Cleverly’s pragmatic China stance clashes with Tory hawks

    Foreign secretary rejects calls from sceptics including his former boss Liz Truss to designate Beijing a ‘threat’

    Foreign secretary James Cleverly and Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    UK politics
    Trump’s enduring presence will have a bearing on UK election and beyond

    Labour leader’s caution on fiscal policy may jar with geopolitical reality

    Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Erie, US
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    UK schools
    UK sobers up to flaws of algorithms in policy

    Automated forms of decision making can be poorly applied, with potential to hit disadvantaged groups

    Students protest in central London in 2020 against the downgrading of A-level results
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Rishi Sunak
    Sunak risks election hopes if governing takes a back seat

    PM needs to show voters his administration still has life in it by nailing policy areas to campaign on

    Rishi Sunak holds a hand out as he stands before a lectern that reads ‘cut waiting lists’
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    UK public finances
    Sense of brighter outlook raises pressure for pre-election tax cuts

    Government speculation swirls over whether to change chancellor before public vote

    Jeremy Hunt
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Demographics and population
    Global spread of birth rate decline makes problem more not less urgent

    Demographic challenge grips UK but non-UK born migrants having children in the country has not moved the dial

    A lollipop lady assists with road crossing as children head to school in Glasgow
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    UK politics
    Football fandom doesn’t come naturally to politicians

    Why Rishi Sunak’s messages to Lionesses drew backlash from some women’s game supporters

    Labour leader Keir Starmer at a football match
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Diluting worker pledges leaves Labour open to fire from all sides

    Risks of the party’s strategy heighten as officials enjoy less freedom to tailor messages to certain audiences

    Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to a local resident in Exeter, England
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