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Why The Conservatives Should Have Backed Starmer’s Welfare Reform
More than three weeks on from the vote on Keir Starmer’s welfare bill , I still can’t shake the feeling that there was a serious error of...

George Wallace
Jul 285 min read


Norman Tebbit Dies at 94: The ‘on yer bike’ Legacy
Norman Tebbit was the first politician I ever met. Sure, local MPs visited my school on occasions – but I was too young to understand....

Dan Sillett
Jul 104 min read


Pulled Apart: The Australian And British Conservative Parties Near Death's Door
Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Despite the names, the Australian Liberal and UK Conservative Parties are rather similar. For one,...

Will Allen
May 116 min read


Reform UK Gets Its First Taste Of Real Power
Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, declared the “end of two-party politics” following his...

Xavier Fletcher
May 64 min read


What we talk about when we talk about illegal immigration
Us, and them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do When Pink Floyd wrote...

Andres De Miguel
Mar 188 min read


Starmer: A Secret Blue? Labour’s Gutsy Crackdown on Welfare Benefits
Britain isn’t working. And Keir Starmer has launched his masterplan to fix it. So let’s give it a fair grilling. Billions in welfare cuts...

Dan Sillett
Mar 144 min read


Seeing Through The Red Mist: Do MPs Shout For The Sake Of Shouting?
Seven months on from the UK General Election, I’ve finally calmed down. A bit. Fortunately, the UK has been under one of its...

Dan Sillett
Feb 144 min read


Is Kemi Badenoch Already Under Pressure?
As the new leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch faces two mammoth tasks. As Leader of the Opposition, she must mount an...

Xavier Fletcher
Feb 94 min read


The New Leader of the Conservatives
After weeks of anticipation, we now have a new leader of the Conservative Party. As Rishi Sunak returns to the back benches, Kemi...

Jordan Laidler
Nov 7, 20243 min read


Kemi Badenoch unveils surprise Tory shadow cabinet
After winning the Conservative Party leadership election with 56% of the vote by party members, Kemi Badenoch has today unveiled her new...

Europinion
Nov 5, 20242 min read


Kemi Badenoch elected leader of the Conservative Party
Kemi Badenoch has been elected as the new leader of the Conservative Party, securing 53,806 votes in the final ballot. Her opponent,...

Europinion
Nov 2, 20242 min read


Could Labour be More Contradictory, or Wrong, on the Economy?
They really did take us for fools. Labour have lied to millions of voters (albeit to millions of voters less than in 2017 and 2019), as...

Nathaniel Delo
Oct 12, 20243 min read


Plasters for Severed Legs: A Guide to Britain’s Political Economy
‘ Change ’ cried Starmer at his post-election acceptance speech, as the country tentatively awaited the new government’s solutions for an...

Andres De Miguel
Oct 8, 20243 min read


From the Jaws of Destruction: Why the Tories are Already Back in Business
Labour might have won the general election, but the Conservatives won conference season by a landslide. Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Dan Sillett
Oct 4, 20244 min read


Watch: Dan Sillett addresses Conservative Party Conference
Dan Sillett Addresses Immigration Debate at 2024 Conservative Party Conference On 30 September 2024, political commentator Dan Sillett...

Dan Sillett
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Grenfell Tower: Inquiry tells tale of endless negligence
‘The system isn’t broken, it was built this way’ Mussilhy, a Grenfell survivor. ‘All Grenfell deaths were avoidable’ – Sir Martin...

Arsima Bereketab
Sep 20, 20244 min read


Badenoch is Bright but can she tame the populists and Unite the Right?
It was unsurprising when Kemi Badenoch entered the Conservative leadership contest last. Known for her astute political instincts, it...

Ethan Harvey
Aug 14, 20244 min read


We need to talk about immigration
Immigration has become a paradoxical issue in Britain: a taboo subject yet a contentious, polemic topic. It polarises public opinion and...

Will Kingston-Cox
Jul 24, 20244 min read


The Tebbit trinity comes back to haunt the Tories again
In a conversation with his advisor, Bernard Donoughue, before the 1979 General Election, the then Prime Minister Jim Callaghan summed up...

Danyal Usman
Jul 23, 20244 min read


Voting Reform? Beware the Pitfalls of Proportional Representation
As Kier Starmer cruised to a predictable and wholesale victory last Thursday, the larger story of the evening was perhaps the...

Joshua Edwicker
Jul 18, 20244 min read
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