With ambition and imagination, Liz Truss is best placed to secure our Union, writes ALUN CAIRNS

With ambition and imagination, Liz Truss is best placed to secure our Union, writes ALUN CAIRNS, the latest Tory MP to back leadership race front-runner By Alun Cairns Published: 00:36 BST, 16 August 2022 | Updated: 02:00 BST, 16 August 2022 The challenges facing our next prime minister have been well documented: Energy and food … Read more

Keir Starmer now needs to ditch the dinosaurs, writes former Labour MP Ian Austin 

Today, Sir Keir Starmer finds himself in a crucial battle with the trade unions, and it is one he cannot afford to lose.  The row was triggered by the Labour leader’s decision to sack shadow transport minister Sam Tarry.  Tarry, a former transport union official, joined a picket organised by striking rail workers last week.  … Read more

Amid a string of union pay demands, 70s historian DOMINIC SANDBROOK says Government must be firm

A few decades ago, as older readers will remember, the vocabulary of our political life was very different.  Britain in the 1970s was a weird land of government concordats and social contracts, industrial correspondents and picket-line showdowns, pay norms and incomes policies. On television, burly men with enormous glasses were forever trooping out of Downing … Read more

Wagwan with our language? As urban dialect takes over, IRAM RAMZAN says not all change is good

Wagwan with our beautiful language? As experts say an urban dialect is taking over, IRAM RAMZAN argues that not all change is good By Iram Ramzan For The Daily Mail Published: 00:48 BST, 16 June 2022 | Updated: 08:51 BST, 16 June 2022 Wagwan, mandem. I ain’t chirpsing, though you do look peng. Confused? You’re … Read more

DANIEL JOHNSON : Rise of the Left, and blunders Down Under that Boris Johnson must learn from

Back in December 2020, Brexit talks were stalling and an ‘Australia-style’ no-deal between Britain and the EU loomed. That was when Boris Johnson was overheard whistling the Aussie ballad Waltzing Matilda in the corridors of No 10. In the event, of course, a deal was signed – and the Prime Minister focused his attentions elsewhere … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: Edward Leigh is silent on Pope’s ‘Putin altar boy’ jibe 

ANDREW PIERCE: Edward Leigh is silent on Pope’s ‘Putin altar boy’ jibe By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:52 BST, 23 May 2022 | Updated: 02:25 BST, 23 May 2022 Good Catholics like to take their lead from the Pope. So one might have expected Tory grandee Sir Edward Leigh to have publicly … Read more