Jay Elwes
12 May 2023
Welcome to the alternative conference season
The coming week will offer two possible paths ahead for the Conservative Party. Both are bad, but one is downright sinister
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25 April 2023
There was no plan – and he knew it
They all did. But they campaigned for it anyway
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Dominic Raab – a failure
He is the poster boy for a generation of Conservative politicians who have made Britain more divided, isolated and poorer
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Catherine Ashton: Our last European leader
How can nations speak to one another? One British diplomat found the answer
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Boris Johnson’s day in court probably will not save him
He denied everything – but will anyone believe him?
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Forget the budget, here’s the real, dirty way Sunak aims to win the next election
By weaponising migrant boats and letting his MPs stoke culture wars, the PM is damaging his party and the country
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The moral collapse of the Tory party
The government’s immigration policy shows how extreme it has become
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28 February 2023
I’m happy Steve Baker’s got closure – now, what about the rest of us?
The ex-‘Brexit hard man’ hopes his mental struggles are now over, yet millions continue to suffer because of policies he espoused
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Has Sunak done enough?
The prime minister has got his agreement with the EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol – but will it be enough to stop a rebellion?
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Boris Johnson’s latest intervention is more bad news for Sunak’s deal
The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland
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Resignation watch: The four ministers who could quit over the Protocol deal
Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Tories – what could possibly go wrong?
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A very European scandal
The point is not the corruption but the response
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The Salem of Europe
The New World’s witch trials are infamous. But the most brutal outbreaks of Satanic panic took place in what is now southern Germany
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If Boris wins, he will destroy the Tory party
A generation of kids will grow up associating Conservatism with cold, hunger and political disaster. He’ll only make it worse
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We need a general election now
The Conservative Party has driven Britain to the brink of a democratic crisis. Only a national vote can end it
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The danger of having only one idea
What happens when it fails?
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Truss speaks. Badly
The most important question raised by the prime minister’s speech came from the protestors who disrupted it
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Liz Truss plummets to success
The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans
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Those who chose the storm
The French Resistance has often been portrayed in a less than serious light, but that could not be further from the truth, as the memoirs of Marie Chamming’s illustrate
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