by Jason Tyler | 29th September 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
James Frayne is Director of Public First and author of Meet the People, a guide to moving public opinion. The Government always knew that keeping public opinion onside during the early days of a second spike would be hard. These are times when public finances are...
by Jason Tyler | 29th September 2020 | Brexit, Culture, Europe, General, Immigration, Politics
Many pixels and much paper have been spent trying to explain UKIP and, briefly, the Brexit Party. Some see them as having been driven mainly by economics, and the effect of the financial crash and techological change on living standards, jobs and security. Others...
by Jason Tyler | 28th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
Today, there is a general debate on Covid-19. That will give the Government’s backbench critics who want a Sweden-style approach a chance to make their case. It will be well worth watching to see how many put it; how strongly; and how many Tory backbenchers...
by Jason Tyler | 26th September 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Politics
David Gauke is a former Justice Secretary, and was an independent candidate in South-West Hertfordshire at last year’s general election. For an amendment of no legal force that may not even be called, Graham Brady’s proposal that there should approve in advance...
by Jason Tyler | 25th September 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
Jason Reed is External Communications Officer at the British Conservation Alliance. The World Health Organisation (WHO), which is an arm of the UN, has come under a great deal of scrutiny this year as a result of its disastrous leadership throughout the pandemic, the...
by Jason Tyler | 22nd September 2020 | Brexit, General, Politics
After Labour’s disastrous performance at the last General Election, Keir Starmer was keen to put the Corbyn years behind him at the party’s conference today. He gave one of the most passionate speeches of his career, telling voters that “[t]his party is under new...
