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- ‘What Boris Johnson and the Tory right have learned from Antonio Gramsci’, New Statesman, 26 July 2019.
- ‘The PM we shouldn’t write off’, Unherd, 19 July 2019.
- ‘Tory leadership contest: What’s on the minds of party members?’, BBC, 5 July 2019.
- ‘How the Tories became a Brexit death cult in thrall to Boris Johnson’, Independent, 27 June 2019.
- ‘People are unpredictable at predicting what they will do’ (with Phil Cowley), Times, 27 June 2019.
- ‘Tory leadership: Who gets to choose the UK’s next prime minister?’, BBC, 23 June 2019.
- ‘The Surreal Contest to Succeed Theresa May’, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2019
- ‘Boris Johnson supporters want no-deal Brexit and less talk of climate change – new survey of party members reveals’, The Conversation (with Paul Webb), 11 June 2019.
- ‘How Farage took control’, Unherd, 7 June 2019.
Tag Archives: DUP
‘The Tories’ deal with the DUP papers over the cracks, but it can’t work miracles’, Telegraph, 26 June 2017.
The ten parliamentary votes provided to Theresa May by the Democratic Unionist Party come at a pretty high price. Not only do they work out at a hundred million pounds apiece in extra spending; there’s also the reputational cost to the … Continue reading
‘DEBATE: Does Theresa May’s failure to win a majority lay the path for another election before the end of the year? YES’, CityAM, 12 June 2017
Unless Theresa May surprises us all and makes the DUP “a big, open, and comprehensive offer” (copyright D. Cameron, 2010) of a full-blown coalition, then we’re going to see the Conservatives try to run a minority government dependent on Ulster Unionist support … Continue reading
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‘The Conservatives have a leadership decision to make’, Financial Times, 9 June 2017
The Conservative party is, infamously, an autocracy tempered by assassination. If they win elections, or look like winning them, Tory leaders can do pretty much what they want. If they lose them, they are toast. If we were living in … Continue reading
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