Tag Archives: Boris Johnson

‘Will Boris Johnson be the next Prime Minister – No’, City AM, 19 September 2017

Posted on November 5, 2017 by

Boris Johnson is a classicist. So was Machiavelli. And I’d say it was the Renaissance special adviser, rather than some ancient Greek or Roman, who provides the better clue to the foreign secretary’s behaviour in the last few days. Rather … Continue reading →

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‘Think you know who will be the next PM? Think again . . . and again’, Times, 11 July 2017

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

A year ago this week, Theresa May became prime minister. She may not last much longer. Her authority is not so much seeping away as haemorrhaging. Her credibility (and some say her confidence) is shot. Potential successors are being touted … Continue reading →

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‘EU referendum: one year on – political parties’, UK in a Changing Europe, 26 June 2017.

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As far as the UK’s political parties were concerned, last summer’s EU referendum was a bit like one of those tag-team wrestling matches you see on TV. Although the bout began with everyone thinking they knew who was on which … Continue reading →

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‘The Tory party is more useless than nasty’, Prospect, 20 June 2017.

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A recently published review seems to sum the Conservative Party’s general election pretty well, no? In fact, the portrait of the … campaign that emerges from these pages is that of a Titanic-like disaster: an epic fail made up of … Continue reading →

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Who’s going to win Britain’s Brexit referendum?, UK in a Changing Europe, 1 December 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by

Prediction may be a mug’s game but it’s still great fun. And, when it comes to Britain’s vote on Brexit, it’s not even as if we have nothing to go on. There have already been loads of opinion polls on … Continue reading →

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Notes from the Tory fringe, where everyone is playing nicely – for now, The Conversation, 6 October 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by

Welcome to the Tory Party conference in Manchester – as ever a curious mix of the nerdy, the nutty, the nasty, and the nice and normal. The latter (apologies to anti-austerity protesters everywhere but it’s true) are in the majority. … Continue reading →

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‘An over-chillaxed David Cameron drops a brick with his bombshell’, FT, 24 March 2015

Posted on April 11, 2015 by

Either David Cameron is one of the more unusual men ever to have become British prime minister — one of those rare birds in politics (the last was Stanley Baldwin back in 1937) who quit while they are genuinely ahead … Continue reading →

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