Analysis: Budget 2024: Keir Starmer Just Walked Right Into the Tories’ Trap
James Meadway
With nothing new left to say, Jeremy Hunt used his last budget to set Labour up to fail, writes James Meadway.
Tag: Tory party
Analysis: The Public Supports Palestine. Why Don’t Our Politicians?
Ell Folan
The polls are unequivocal: nobody likes Israel, not even Tories, writes Ell Folan. So why are our politicians so absolutely committed to keeping their fingers in their ears?
Analysis: Jeremy Hunt Is Desperate to Ditch the Energy Price Cap. Too Bad His Own Voters Need It
Ell Folan
Last week chancellor Jeremy Hunt was again forced to U-turn on lifting the energy price cap. Try as they might to ditch it, necessity has bound the Tories to the policy, writes Ell Folan.
Opinion: Is the European Research Group Losing Its Grip on the Tory Party?
Helen Belcher
The ERG, deemed the “most influential in recent political history”, has been a kingmaker within the Tory party. But is its reign now coming to an end?
Opinion: Voters Already Hate Liz Truss
Ell Folan
Liz Truss is on course to win the Tory leadership by a landslide. She won’t be smiling for long, argues Ell Folan.
Analysis: Were the 70s Really That Great?
Juliet Jacques
From the union boom to radical TV, the left tends to see the 70s through rose-tinted glasses. We should beware nostalgia, writes Juliet Jacques.
Opinion: A Cash Injection Won’t Fix Our Broken Legal System
Michael Etienne
Criminal barristers deserve better pay, writes Michael Etienne. But paying barristers better won't deliver a justice system that’s actually just.
Opinion: Who Could Replace Boris Johnson and How Scared Should I Be?
Simon Childs
We took a look at the runners and riders to replace the prime minister.
Novara Live: Corruption Runs Through the Veins of the Tory Party
Threats to withdraw funding from rebel MPs' constituencies, a potential peerage for Paterson and the PM refuses to come clean on lavish getaways. It's just another week for a government rotten to the core.
Novara Live: Johnson’s Nasty Cut Trashes Promise to “Level Up”
Boris Johnson's pun-filled conference speech promised to "level up" the country, but on the day that millions are hit by a cruel cut to universal credit, his pitch to workers is a sick joke.
Novara Live: Boris Johnson Hails Higher Wages at Tory Conference
At Tory party conference Boris Johnson is promising higher wages in a post-brexit Britain. How seriously should we take the pledge?
The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
Novara FM: #ToryConf14, Housing, Britain’s Working Poor
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler are joined by Dawn Foster as they discuss this week's Tory party conference, pema-austerity and three-party coalitions after 2015.