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Does Burnham have a plan? (No)

It's over – Keir Starmer resigns

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/06/2026

Why Makerfield changes everything | Tim Shipman, James Lyons, Luke Tryl & Michael Simmons

Andy Burnham wins by a landslide – what happens next?

LIVE: The Brexit Debate | Michael Gove & Claire Fox vs Dominic Grieve & Matthew Parris

How quickly could Starmer be deposed?

How to beat Burnham | with Reform UK's Gawain Towler

Why Trump’s Iran deal won’t save Starmer

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/06/2026

Can Starmer survive the MoD exodus?

‘It’s beyond embarrassing, it’s dangerous’: why Britain must fund defence | Sir Richard Barrons

Defence Sec resigns: 'Keir can't keep Britain safe'

Kemi Badenoch's remarkable turnaround

What Kemi Badenoch told Tim Shipman

What will Keir Starmer's legacy be?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/06/2026

The battle for Makerfield

Who won the Makerfield Question Time?

Darren Jones & the missing Mandelson messages

Henry Nowak: which leader has struck the right tone

Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Desert Island Discs revealed

How Mandelson continues to haunt Labour

Why politics hasn’t recovered from 2008 | with Lord Wood

Who has a winning vision for Labour – Blair, Burnham or Starmer?

Is it too late for Britain's 'lost generation'?

Can Andy Burnham really do it?

What did Nicola Sturgeon know?

Can Kemi really save the Tories? | with Lee Cain

Which Andy Burnham will we get this time?

LIVE: The Net Zero Debate | Liam Halligan & Lord Lilley vs Bob Ward & Shahrar Ali

The calm before Labour’s next storm

Will the bond markets undo Burnham?

Burnham vs Reform: why Makerfield matters

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 17/05/2026

'It's an orgy of chaos': Steve Baker on how to oust a Prime Minister

LIVE: Steve Reed on Streeting, Burnham & what happened to levelling up?

Wesignation: does Streeting have a plan?

All eyes on Wes: inside Labour's leadership crisis

If it’s not Keir, it’s Carns | Mike Tapp MP

Starmer says put up or shut up

Keir Starmer’s big pitch is ... more of the same

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 10/05/2026

Should he stay, or should he go? | with Maurice Glasman

The local elections winners & losers, in 10 mins

Local elections briefing: what you need to know as Reform sweeps the country

The greatest political books ever: how many have you read?

Are the Greens repeating Corbyn's mistakes?

Who will survive the local elections?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 03/05/2026

LIVE: The Fight for the Right | Nick Timothy & Claire Coutinho vs Danny Kruger & Matt Goodwin

Why did the assisted dying bill fail? | Lord Moore vs Lord Falconer

The end of the peer show

Starmer vs the basics of politics

Morgan McSweeney faces the music

Can the King handle Trump?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 26/04/2026

'I used to be Labour. No more.' – who will win Wales?

Is Lord Hermer fit to be Attorney General?

‘Worse than the worst of Boris Johnson’ – are Labour turning on Starmer?

'When, not if' – who will move against Starmer?

Why Olly Robbins testimony is 'quietly devastating' for Starmer

'They expect us to believe this?' – Starmer’s Mandelson story doesn’t add up

Why the Lib Dems are aiming for second – with Al Pinkerton MP & Mark Pack

Danny Kruger: Reform’s plan to tear up the system

Mandelson latest: can we trust Starmer's ignorance?

Inside parliament’s ‘summer of sex’ | Cindy Gallop & Cleo Watson

Why won't Starmer answer the question!?

Are the Treasury & the MOD at war?

Keir Starmer thinks he's Henry VIII

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/04/2026

Will Labour lose Wales?

Left turn: who should Reform target?

The 'Anglo-Gaullism' debate | Ben Judah

Antonia Romeo takes on the civil service

Iran deadline: is it too late for Trump to back down?

Hero voters: who should Labour target? with Chris Curtis MP & Deborah Mattinson

Why is Starmer so unpopular? with Lewis Goodall

Conservative radicalism: who should the Tories target? with Jack Rankin MP

EU déjà vu: the emergency brake is back!

Will Trump pull the US out of NATO?

Why is Britain so exposed to rising energy prices?

Where does Labour's centre of gravity lie?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 29/03/2026

LIVE: Should we defund or defend the BBC? | Michael Gove & Jon Sopel v Charles Moore & Allison Pearson

Energy crisis: are we in 1973 territory?

The curious case of Morgan McSweeney's missing phone

To drill or not to drill, that is the question

Should we brace for another financial shock?

It’s Ed Miliband’s world – and we’re living in it

On the road with Nigel Farage

LIVE: is it time for a Tory-Reform pact?

Britain’s decline – and how to reverse it | with John Bew

Is Angela Rayner staging a coup?

Net Zero vs AI: can Reeves convince Miliband?

Is Labour sleepwalking back to the EU?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/03/2026

Is the government right to restrict jury trials?

The Mandelson scandal exposes Starmer’s greatest flaw | with Gabriel Pogrund

How will the Iran war end? | with Shashank Joshi

Starmer should be honest about why he picked Mandelson

Is the special relationship over?

Is Keir Starmer good in a crisis?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 08/03/2026

Why we left the Foreign Office | Ben Judah & Ameer Kotecha

Green surge: could Labour lose London?

Iran: has Starmer alienated Britain's allies?

Labour humiliated by Chinese spy arrests

Spring statement: everything you need to know

Iran: is Starmer doomed to repeat Blair's mistake?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/03/2026

LIVE: The Spectator’s Alternative Covid Inquiry

How Gorton & Denton changed British politics | with Luke Tryl

Green victory in Gorton and Denton

Spring statement: Reeves' last throw of the dice?

Badenoch rattles Starmer – but are they as bad as each other?

Peter Mandelson haunts Labour

SEND plans: 'cost-cutting or reform'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 22/02/2026

Why by-elections matter – with Iain Dale & Jon Craig

Andrew's arrest spells trouble for Labour

How prepared is Britain for war? – with Gen Sir Nick Carter

Is Reform now part of the ‘orthodoxy’?

Nigel Farage unveils his shadow cabinet

Can Starmer protect the country (and himself)?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/02/2026

Starmer, Mandelson & HMT: why Gordon Brown has never been more relevant

Can Starmer escape his problems in Munich?

Is Antonia Romeo what the civil service needs?

Keir Starmer gets angry

Is Starmer back from the brink?

McSweeney resigns – is Starmer next?

Morgan McSweeney quits - Sunday Roundup 08/02/2026

Jonathan Hinder: ‘I don’t know if Starmer should fight the next election’

Keir's worst week – but Kemi's best?

Could the herd move on Starmer?

The Mandelson scandal could spell the end for Starmer

Gorton & Denton by-election: everything you need to know

What next for Peter Mandelson?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/02/2026

How should the UK manage its relationship with China?

Rayner vs Streeting – and what is 'active government'?

Is centrism dead? | with David Gauke, vice-chair of Prosper UK

Breaking news: Lammy was good at PMQs

What does Starmer want to achieve in China?

Suella Braverman defects – not another one!

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 25/01/2026

Reasons to be optimistic | with Michael Gove, Tim Stanley, Steve Baker & David Goodhart

Does British politics reward traitors or faithfuls?

Andy Burnham is back in the game – and Robert Jenrick reveals all

Starmer turns on Trump

The scandal of China’s ‘super embassy’

Greenland: why Europe needs to 'grow up' | with Tim Marshall

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/01/2026

Debate: what's the point of the Lib Dems?

Jenrick vs Badenoch: who won yesterday's defection?

Inside Jenrick & Reform's shotgun marriage

Is Jenrick joining Reform?

What's the future of the Scottish Tories?

Why Ed Davey is happy being boring

Zahawi defects: are Reform becoming Tories 2.0?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 11/01/2026

Mums for Reform?

Keir Starmer, pub harmer

How Reform plans to govern

Why is Keir Starmer so irritable?

International statesman or 'never here Keir'?

Regime change in Caracas ... but not Westminster

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 04/01/2026

John Curtice: what to expect in 2026

Debate: is 2026 Kemi's year?

Dominic Cummings interview – search Quite right! now

Reality Check: 2025 – tears, tariffs & taxes

Year in Review 2025 – Live

Stephen Flynn on Reform, Sturgeon & a second referendum

Who won 2025? with Quentin Letts

Daniel Finkelstein on anti-Semitism, Nick Fuentes & viral hate

A ‘classically awful’ PMQs to round out the year

Why Britain needs to wake up to extremism

The Liaison Committee exposed Starmer’s weaknesses

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/12/2025

Will Scotland switch course in 2026? with Gordon McKee

‘Growth is not Labour’s priority, it’s hilarious’

Does Farage really want to be Prime Minister?

Kemi is on a roll

Is a Ukraine peace deal inching closer?

Why Kemi is safer than Keir

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/12/2025

‘Superadvisers’ and the Starmer paradox: who really runs No. 10?

Brexit's back – and so is Truss

The murky world of political donations

PMQs: at least Kemi is enjoying herself

Lammy on trial over plans to scrap juries

Did Rachel Reeves lie?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 30/11/2025

Disraeli to Reeves: how each Chancellor drank their way through the Budget

The black hole myth & the brain drain conundrum

The OBR on the Budget leak & why they're always wrong

Rachel Reeves’s farcical Budget

Why Reeves's smorgasbord Budget won't fix Britain

Britain's expensive energy problem – with Claire Coutinho

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 23/11/2025

Why Britain needs more Yimbys

Covid report: ‘a £200 million I told you so’

Is Labour turning blue?

PMQs: Labour's 'dog whistle politics'

Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again

Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025

Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons

What is going on in the Treasury!?

Politics or economics – which is Labour worst at?

Wes for PM?

Labour's vibes are all wrong

What now for the BBC?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/11/2025

What Trump II can teach Britain

Pain is inevitable for Rachel Reeves

Why energy is the new political battleground

The most bizarre PMQs ever

Reeves prepares the public for tax hikes

Farage: trust me with the economy

Introducing... Reality Check

The inside story of Kemi's first year

Andrew (Mountbatten Windsor) saves the Chancellor

What happened at the Parliamentarian of the Year Awards?

Who will 'take back control' of the economy?

Migration, the customs union & a £40bn black hole?

Is the Home Office fit for purpose?

Has Starmer misled parliament? Plus Lucy Powell wins

Caerphilly by-election: 'a tale of two faces'

What’s inside Farage’s brain?

Grooming gangs: Kemi accuses Labour of a 'cover up'

Britain's doom loop continues

Can Reform run a council?

Thatcher & Reagan's special relationship

Antisemitism, Chinese spies & GB's economic fragility

The truth about Chinese espionage

Are the Tories to blame for the China spy scandal?

China spy scandal: 'a masterclass of ineptitude'?

Spy scandal: what is Labour's policy on China?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/10/2025

Who is the greatest ever conservative?

How can the Tories turn it around? Live

Whisper it quietly, peace in the Middle East?

Finally we know what Badenoch stands for

Who's listening to the Tories? Live from conference

Economy: can we trust the Tories again?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 05/10/2025

Debate: what next for the British right?

Manchester attack: Michael Gove on the rise of antisemitism

Kemi Badenoch's plan to save the Tories

Labour's deputy divisions: insider vs outsider?

Starmer delivers 'the speech of his life'

Shabana Mahmood in conversation with Michael Gove – Labour Conference 2025

Labour conference: 'a holiday from reality'?

Labour’s ‘levelling up’ agenda – Michael Gove interviews Steve Reed

ID cards are back: will they work?

Starmer's make-or-break conference

What is 'Manchesterism'?

Ed Davey pitches himself as the anti-Farage

Farage goes after Boris

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/09/2025

Should Britain recognise Palestine?

Inside the 'Your Party' meltdown

Trump’s state visit was a ‘news bonanza’

Andy Burnham’s ‘fantasy politics’

Will Trump's state visit save Starmer?

Why Danny Kruger’s defection to Reform matters

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/09/2025

What does Trump want from his state visit?

Will Mandelson bring down McSweeney?

Prince of Darkness sacked (again)

Badenoch skewers Starmer over Mandelson’s Epstein link

Quite right! Episode 2, out now

Will Shabana stop the boats?

Reform conference review: is this 'British MAGA'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/09/2025

Reform's Zia Yusuf in conversation with Michael Gove

The red reshuffle overshadows Reform

Reaction from Reform as Rayner resigns

Can Rayner survive tax row?

PMQs: Rayner defended as Badenoch flops

Introducing… Quite right!

Asylum reform: is Labour bold enough?

Labour's transfer deadline day

How have the 2024 intake found frontline politics?

Why Angela Rayner is so iconic

Bell Hotel latest: 'two tier justice'?

Revenge of the left

Labour goes on the Farage offensive

Farage finally unveils his deportation plan

Can the Lib Dems emulate Reform's Scottish surge?

Is Britain becoming more sectarian?

Starmer’s authoritarian turn – with Ash Sarkar

Is the Blair-Cameron consensus on education over?

Why haven't the Greens cut through more?

Zelensky's diplomatic masterclass

How do we get more working class people into politics?

Is the world safer than in 1945?

Farage goes for the Lords

Does European solidarity over Ukraine matter?

Does MAGA prefer Jenrick?

Who is the real Nicola Sturgeon?

Introducing 'Farage's fillies'

Motherland: how Reform is winning over women

Kemi Badenoch's God Delusion

Has the Bank of England forgotten what its job is?

What Douglas Murray’s court win means for press freedom

Britain can learn from France on migration

Vance & Farage's budding bromance

Online Safety Act: are Labour or the Tories worse on free speech?

Why can't we agree on data?

Will the junior doctors regret picking a fight with Wes?

Could Reform's Scottish surge provoke indyref2?

How much pressure is Starmer facing over Gaza?

What should we make of the Starmer-Trump relationship?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 27/07/2025

Katie Lam on immigration, benefits and the border: ‘generosity has become naivety’

Can the left get its act together?

Keir’s Indian Summer

How to write a political sketch – with Madeline Grant

What's left of the Tories?

Reform turns tough on crime

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 20/07/2025

Are the Tories toast? with Michael Gove, Tim Shipman and Isabel Hardman

Will 16 year olds vote Labour?

Confessions of a new intake Labour MP: 'We're not here to make friends'

Mel Stride: 'what I would do differently'

Why does Trump like Starmer so much?

Are you a 'working person'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/07/2025

Amanda Spielman on the SEND row and Labour’s Ofsted blind spot

Sacré bleu! We have a migration deal with France

The unstoppable Angela Rayner

Wes Streeting takes on the doctors

Can Keir defrost the 'entente glaciale'?

Keir can't catch a break

Labour’s first year (in review) with Tim Shipman & Quentin Letts

Corbyn is back! ... or is he?

NHS reforms: Labour puts on a brave face

Chancellor in tears during PMQs

Welfare vote: how many will rebel?

Does Starmer still want to be PM?

Steve Baker on how to organise a successful rebellion

Welfare U-turn: is Keir in control?

Who’s having a worse week: Keir or Kemi?

Welfare rebellion: why Starmer – and Reeves – should be worried

Iran: 'what the f***' is going on?

Does the government support Trump’s Iran strikes?

Jeremy Hunt on Trump, Budgets and Welsh whisky

MPs back assisted dying: what next?

What you need to know ahead of the assisted dying vote

The inside story of how Labour is dealing with Iran

Westminster waits for Donald’s decision

Can you 'take the politics out' of the grooming gangs scandal?

Grooming gangs: will this inquiry be different?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/06/2025

Why is Britain's economy so unhealthy?

Israel strikes Iran – how will Iran retaliate?

Is Rachel Reeves’s headroom shrinking?

Spending review: smoke, mirrors and no strategy

Labour goes nuclear while Reform turns to coal

Labour try to silence ‘austerity-lite’ accusations

Rupert Lowe on Reform turmoil, Chagos 'treason' and taking the Tory whip

Surprise Labour victory as Reform’s fallout continues

Zia Yusuf resigns from Reform

From Thatcher to Truss, who's haunting Mel Stride?

To spend or not to spend

Is the public ready for difficult decisions on defence?

Is Britain 'battle-ready'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/06/2025

Should cannabis be decriminalised?

What will save the Tories? The economy, or Robert Jenrick?

Can Reform conquer Scotland?

How to do a spending review

Is the welfare state about to expand?

Why is antisemitism so pervasive? Irving v Lipstadt 25 years on

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 25/05/2025

Michael Gove on Starmer vs the workers: why Labour needs to learn to love Brexit

David Gauke on prisons, probation & the political reaction to his review

Live by the rule of law, die by the rule of law

Winter fuel U-turn and a rift at the heart of government

What has reaction been to the UK-EU deal?

UK-EU reset: ‘brexit betrayal’?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/05/2025

Debate: should Kemi Badenoch go?

Can the assisted dying bill survive?

Mixed signals for Labour as GDP rises but the rich leave

Is Badenoch getting better, or is Starmer getting worse?

Are Labour 'pandering' to Nigel Farage?

Have Labour out-Reformed Reform on immigration?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 11/05/2025

Coffee House Shots Live with Zia Yusuf and Jacob Rees-Mogg

US trade deal: ‘a political win, not an economic win’

White smoke on a US trade deal

Do the Tories hate free trade? Plus, Reform hits new polling high

Why Reform’s rise isn't a surprise

Ash Regan on the rise of Reform in Scotland, what is a woman and why ‘no-one resigns anymore’

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 04/05/2025

Does Keir Starmer 'get it'?

Local elections live: is Reform unstoppable?

Local elections: Reform seizes Runcorn in teal tsunami

Michael Gove on how to spin a bad election

What is Tony Blair up to?

Revenge of the centrists: Carney wins in Canada

'The spring of discontent'

‘An era of five-party politics’: John Curtice on the significance of the local elections

Is Robert Jenrick on manoeuvres?

Who do voters trust most on the economy?

St George’s Day: who is the most patriotic leader?

Does Starmer know what a woman is?

How the Liberal Democrats conquered Middle England

10 years of politics as Balls bows out

Labour Together? Party morale & the threat of Reform

How Wes Streeting will make or break Starmer

How will the parties judge success at the local elections?

Has a US-UK trade deal inched closer?

Scunthorpe's steel and Birmingham's bins: a tale of two Labours

'Nationalisation in all but name': the blame game over British Steel

Tariff turmoil: the end of globalisation or a blip in history?

The economy is growing!

'The art of the deal'?

What could a US-UK trade deal look like?

What happened at the Liaison Committee?

Is Trump the new Truss?

Marine Le Pen: justice or lawfare?

Five years on, who is Keir Starmer?

Trump's tariffs explained

Should Starmer impose retaliatory tariffs? Plus local elections lookahead

Welcome to Terrible Tuesday

What to expect on 'World Tariff Day'

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 30/03/2025

Michael Heseltine on Thatcher, Boris and Badenoch

Coffee House Shots Live with Maurice Glasman, David Frost and James Kanagasooriam

Reeves goes on the defensive

Labour's 'Sabrina Carpenter' Budget

Could Cabinet turn on Reeves?

Can Britain dodge Trump's tariffs?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 23/03/2025

Were we right to lock down? Michael Gove vs Toby Young

Does Kemi have a plan?

Can Keir trust Macron?

Spring Statement or ‘Emergency Budget’?

Inside Labour's welfare split

Can the Tories save their education legacy?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/03/2025

Is Keir Starmer a Tory?

The UK economy is shrinking - how much pressure is Rachel Reeves under?

Why Labour are abolishing NHS England

What will Nicola Sturgeon's legacy be?

Has Ukraine called Putin’s bluff?

Starmer facing welfare rebellion

Have Reform blown it?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/03/2025

Who would be a Conservative? – Kate Andrews vs Michael Gove

How long will Starmer’s ‘war bounce’ last?

Labour's 'two tier policing' headache

Could spending cuts herald a ‘winter of discontent for Labour’s left’?

Where does Trump's suspension of Ukraine aid leave Europe?

Can Starmer stick to his promises to Ukraine?

Was Zelensky ambushed at the White House?

Coffee House Shots Live with Robert Jenrick and Jonathan Ashworth

How Starmer won over the Donald

Can Starmer charm Trump?

Why is Kemi struggling at PMQs?

Is Kemi Badenoch a 'realist'?

Ukraine war, three years on

Cindy Yu's Sunday Roundup - 23/02/2025

How the Whips' office really works

Starmer's Scottish headache

Can Farage navigate the Trump-Zelensky maze?

Why Rachel Reeves is safe, for now

How Europe’s consensus on Ukraine broke down

Can Starmer be the bridge between Europe and the US?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/02/2025

Kemi vs Nigel: who would Thatcher have backed?

The UK's balancing act over Trump's 'Ukraine peace plan'

Can we trust the Tories on immigration? An interview with Chris Philp, shadow home secretary

The Spectator’s war on government waste

Was that Kemi Badenoch's worst PMQs?

Have Kemi Badenoch’s first 100 days been a success?

Keir Starmer and the lost art of political oratory

Katy Balls' Sunday Roundup - 09/02/2025

Will there be a Tory/Reform pact?

The inside story of Labour under Starmer

Have the Tories thought through their immigration policy?

Should Starmer stand up to Trump?

Reform in 'poll' position

Trump vs Europe

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 02/02/2025

Was Peter Mandelson the right pick for ambassador to the US?

John Prescott's legacy, plus Labour & the Tories grapple with migration

Can Reform turn more Tory donors?

'Props to Rachel'

Labour's Richard Hermer problem

Is Donald Trump warming to Keir Starmer?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 26/01/25

What Labour and the Tories can learn from Pierre Poilievre

Do Reform want to bring back the death penalty?

Reeves vs Miliband

Should Rachel Reeves be at Davos?

Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?

Could Trump 2.0 derail the Starmer project?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 19/01/2025

Reeves's worst week so far?

Labour caves on grooming gangs

Is Starmer doing enough for Ukraine?

Why would the government pay Gerry Adams?

Is Reform about to overtake Labour? And Tulip Siddiq resigns

Sturgeon-Murrell split & Scotland's Reform challenger

Why hasn't Tulip Siddiq been sacked yet?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/01/2025

What's the point of public inquiries?

Can Musk oust Starmer?

Borrowing costs soar - will Rachel Reeves have to go back on her word?

Michael Gove: why does Labour want to ruin state schools?

Farage vs Musk

Grooming gang row overshadows Starmer's big NHS speech

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 05/01/2025

Elon Musk and the outrage about Britain's grooming gangs

Is Labour serious about social care reform?

Is 2025 Farage’s year?

Why 2025 could redefine politics

Have we been too quick to judge Kemi Badenoch?

Year in Review 2024 with Michael Gove, Quentin Letts and Katy Balls

Is Mandelson the right pick for US Ambassador?

UK interest rates held, plus could Musk fund reform?

Rising inflation will make Rachel Reeves's job harder

Chinese spy named, plus Farage meets Musk

Could the local elections be cancelled?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/12/2024

Would Brexit voters really accept the return of freedom of movement?

Is Rachel Reeves turning into George Osborne?

Labour vs the NIMBYs, plus are sandwiches ‘for wimps’?

Have Labour got a grip of the prisons crisis?

Spending review: a return to austerity?

How does the Syrian conflict affect Britain?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 08/12/2024

Are the SNP exploiting Labour woes?

‘If anything we went too late’: exclusive interview with Sunak’s chief of staff

Is immigration not a priority for Labour?

Spectator Awards: Nigel Farage promises a 'political revolution'

Is Starmer planning a foreign policy reset too?

Is Keir Starmer turning into Rishi Sunak?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/12/2024

Is Labour’s football regulator an own goal?

Assisted dying bill passes second reading – what next?

Louise Haigh’s resignation raises questions for Keir Starmer

Starmer attacks 'open border' Tories, plus Andrea Jenkyns defects

Boris Johnson on Covid failures, the Nanny State & his advice for ‘Snoozefest’ Starmer

Kemi’s first policy proclamation

Can Keir Starmer get Britain back to work?

Should Starmer be worried about this petition?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 24/11/24

Is the Tory psychodrama over?

Is Keir Starmer really going to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu?

Starmer's Streeting problem

Is Rachel Reeves running out of luck?

Farmers won't be quick to forgive Labour

Labour's Trump-Xi balancing act

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 17/11/2024

Taxes, tariffs and Trump: What lies ahead for Labour?

Making sense of non-crime hate incidents

Will Reeves's pensions shake-up really boost growth?

Labour vs Elon Musk

Justin Welby quits as Archbishop of Canterbury

Will Trump push the UK closer to the EU?

Can Labour work with Trump?

How does Starmer solve a problem like Farage?

US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?

Badenoch’s Trump card

Has Kemi Badenoch formed a unity cabinet?

Who will make up Kemi's shadow cabinet?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 03/11/2024

Badenoch wins: what next?

Can Labour save its Budget?

Reeves's Budget: the morning after the night before

Labour's low growth Budget

The problem with Labour's 'sticking plaster politics'

Budget week: Labour braced for backlash

Should Britain pay reparations to Commonwealth countries?

Labour's 'working people' muddle

How many Tories will defect to Reform?

Trump's crusade against Labour

Michael Gove on prisons: Starmer is in the position of Bane

Does Streeting’s NHS plan amount to anything?

Labour budget: are we heading for austerity?

Should bishops be booted out of the Lords?

Tory leadership debate: who came out on top?

Did Labour make its own Budget trap?

Starmer denies being soft on China

National Insurance: Starmer’s first big U-turn?

Is Labour's investment summit back on track?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/10/2024

100 Days of Starmer: the verdict

Is Keir Starmer the new Harold Wilson?

The ‘Green Budget’ could leave Rachel Reeves red-faced

Tory leadership: what on earth just happened?

The final three: Cleverly storms ahead

Will Starmer’s No.10 reset work?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 06/10/2024

Sue Gray out, Morgan McSweeney in

Where is the Brexit dividend? Live at Conservative conference

Assisted dying and Chagos row overshadow Starmer’s carbon capture pledge

Should we be optimistic about the next ten years?

Who was the winner from today’s Tory leadership speeches?

Coffee House Shots live: the struggle for the future of conservatism

Have the Tory leadership candidates got a Truss problem?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 29/09/2024

Did Kemi Badenoch really call maternity pay ‘excessive’?

Is Labour's 2030 clean power target achievable? Live at Labour conference

Inside Starmer's dinner with Donald Trump

Are we on the brink of ‘all out war’ in the Middle East?

Michael Gove is the new editor of The Spectator

What did we learn from Keir Starmer's speech?

Who was the real audience for Rachel Reeves’s speech?

Is Labour going through its own Partygate?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 22/09/2024

Will Starmer clash with the unions?

Farage's next move

What the Sue Gray row is really about

Should Labour ditch the ‘doom and gloom’ narrative?

Where do the Lib Dems go next?

Do the Starmers need a personal shopper?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/09/2024

Is Gordon Brown back?

Will Starmer call Putin’s bluff?

Keir Starmer: the NHS will get 'no more money without reform'

Trump vs Harris debate: who won?

Tory leadership latest: 'Melmentum' runs out

Will Rachel Reeves soften the winter fuel cut?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 08/09/2024

Coffee House Shots live: the Starmer supremacy

Does Rachel Reeves need an 'escape route' on winter fuel?

Tory leadership race latest: Priti out

Grenfell report: why did it take so long?

Is the UK still a 'staunch ally' of Israel?

Is Keir right to scrap one-word Ofsted verdicts?

Which Conservative leader could be a problem for Keir Starmer?

Why has Starmer taken down a portrait of Thatcher?

How far will Starmer’s smoking ban go?

What's behind Starmer's 'reset' with Europe?

Just how ‘painful’ will Starmer’s October Budget be?

What could a Kamala Harris presidency mean for the UK?

Is the energy price cap hike bad news for Labour?

Can Labour crack apprenticeships?

Labour cronyism claims continue

Can Starmer reinvigorate Welsh Labour?

Prison overcrowding triggers emergency measures

What are Sue Gray's plans for the civil service?

Can Labour really tame the unions?

Has GDP growth come at the wrong time for Labour?

Why has the inflation rate gone up again?

Keir Starmer’s first foreign policy tests

Labour goes to war with the Nimbys

The politics of prime ministerial holidays

Keir vs Elon: round II

How the Tory candidates have responded to the riots

Will Starmer crack down on social media?

Keir Starmer slaps down Elon Musk over ‘civil war’ comment

Can our prisons take these 'thugs'?

Is Starmer’s response to the riots enough?

Could Robert Jenrick overtake Kemi Badenoch?

Sunak's gift to Labour

How should Starmer respond to the Southport riots?

Winter for boomers

How will Labour fill the surprise £20bn ‘black hole’?

What's next for Suella Braverman?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 28/07/2024

Who might replace Simon Case as Cabinet Secretary?

Labour's '£20 billion black hole' strategy

Tory leadership race latest: who's declared?

Starmer’s plan to deal with Labour’s hard left

Are we in for a 'dirty' Tory leadership contest?

Labour's Kamala Harris problem

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/07/2024

What is going on with Joe Biden?

Tory leadership race latest: what's going on?

Keir Starmer: 'We want to reset relationships with EU'

What was missing from the King's Speech?

Two-child benefit cap row – Starmer’s first big test?

How Westminster reacted to the Trump assassination attempt

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/07/2024

Coffee House Shots live: election aftermath

Welcome to Whitehall Watch

Can Labour solve our prisons crisis?

Has Nato been a success for Starmer?

Who will lead the Tories in opposition?

Can Wes Streeting end the NHS strikes?

Can Labour deliver economic growth?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/07/2024

The surprises in Starmer's cabinet

Labour wins by a landslide

Exit poll predicts Labour landslide

Will there be an election upset on Thursday?

Has Reform peaked too soon?

Starmer's Europe dilemma

Coffee House Shots live: election special

Labour's women problem

Will Biden survive his debate implosion?

Should we ban polls?

Sunak vs Starmer round two - who won?

Has 'gamblegate' become ridiculous?

Who will survive?

Is Nigel Farage drawing from the Trump playbook?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 23/06/24

Is Brexit safe under Labour?

Question Time special – who came out on top?

Sunak's campaign derailed by betting claims — again

Have the Tories given up on the Red Wall?

Is Boris back to save the day?

Does Nigel Farage have the cure for Britain?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/06/24

What could Starmer's first year in power look like?

Who is the real opposition to Labour?

What wasn't included in Labour's manifesto

Sunak vs Starmer – who came out on top?

Why are Tories talking about a Labour Super Majority?

Is Sunak's cautious manifesto a mistake?

Why has Douglas Ross resigned as Scottish Tory leader?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/06/2024

Nigel Farage's Conservative manifesto

Will Labour's manifesto contain a surprise?

Why did Sunak leave the D-Day commemorations early?

Has there been a CCHQ candidates stitch up?

Who won the first leaders' debate?

What would it take for Sunak to have a breakthrough?

Could Farage crush the Tories?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 02/06/2024

Can Keir handle Trump?

Can Keir Starmer control the Labour left?

Starmer purges the Corbynites

Is Diane Abbott in or out?

Who's winning the TikTok election battle?

The Dunkirk Strategy

Does Keir Starmer have enough to say?

Sunak: let’s bring back national service

What does a July election mean for the SNP?

What‘s behind the Tory exodus?

Is the Labour lead as big as it seems?

Why has the election been called now?

Sunak's biggest gamble yet: a July election

Is an election about to be called?

Is there finally good news for the government?

Infected blood scandal was ‘no accident’, says report

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 19/05/2024

The whips' office and their woes

Can Hunt answer the Reagan question?

Has Starmer scaled down his pledges?

Starmer fluffs his lines at PMQs

Is Natalie Elphicke an unlikely hero?

Will Sunak's fighting talk work?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/05/24

Can John Swinney turn it around for the SNP?

The UK leaves recession – but is it too late for the Tories?

Can Lammy charm Trump?

Why does Labour want Natalie Elphicke?

Will there really be a hung parliament?

What does Andy Street's defeat mean for Rishi Sunak?

Have the Tories avoided a local election catastrophe?

Labour triumphs in Blackpool as Tories suffer heavy losses

Can Ben Houchen save Rishi Sunak?

Will the Tories' mental health focus backfire?

Humza Yousaf quits – what next?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 28/04/2024

Can Starmer do patriotism?

Can Humza Yousaf hang on?

Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?

Has Angela Rayner redeemed herself?

Sunak’s Rwanda Bill finally passes parliament

Will there be a summer election?

Can things get worse for the SNP?

Sunak declares a crackdown on Britain’s ‘sick note culture’

Is it smart to ban phones for teens?

Sunak's Truss problem

How many MPs will reject Sunak’s smoking ban?

Liz Truss returns - again

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/04/24

Harold Wilson's secret Downing Street affair

Is Angela Rayner unsackable?

Has Rishi Sunak failed on the NHS?

What are the conclusions of the Cass Review?

Will David Cameron win over Republicans?

How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/04/2024

J.K. Rowling vs Scotland's hate monster

Is William Wragg a victim?

Should Britain end arms sales to Israel?

Has Israel lost British support?

Could Scotland's new Hate Crime Act overwhelm the police?

Will Sue Gray be running Keir Starmer’s government?

Labour's pledge to 'take back control'

Could Jonathan Gullis be another Lee Anderson?

What happened at Sunak’s Liaison Committee meeting?

Scott Benton triggers another by-election

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 24/03/2024

What is Labour’s economic plan?

Should the 'Waspi women' be compensated?

Will Fine Gael call an election?

Will Reform overtake the Tories?

Did Jeremy Hunt reduce inflation?

What should Labour do about the Rwanda bill?

Will Penny Mordaunt be the next prime minister?

Nigel Farage on Reform, the Red Wall and 14 years of Tory failure

Rishi Sunak rules out general election in May

Will Gove’s extremism definition worsen Tory divides?

Will the Tories return Hester’s £10 million?

What does Boris want?

Lee Anderson defects: what next?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 10/03/2024

Does Britain need new laws to tackle extremism?

Why is Theresa May standing down?

Are Scottish Tories causing trouble for Rishi Sunak?

Jeremy Hunt’s low-key Budget

What tax cut will Hunt deliver tomorrow?

Sunak and Hunt face a Budget dilemma

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 03/03/2024

Is the Home Office broken?

Labour nightmare as George Galloway wins Rochdale by-election

Why wasn't Wayne Couzens stopped?

We need to talk about Truss

David Neal vs the Home Office

Have the Tories got 'Islamophobic tendencies'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 25/02/24

Lee Anderson suspended: what now?

Tom Baldwin: 'There is no such thing as Starmerism'

Commons chaos revealed the threat to MPs’ safety

What happened in the Commons chaos last night?

Has Lindsay Hoyle overstepped?

Starmer moves to quell ceasefire rebellion

Are citizens' assemblies the future?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/02/24

Do accents still matter in politics?

Labour triumphs in by-election brace

UK tips into recession – what's left of Sunak's priorities?

Have the Tories given up on Wellingborough & Kingswood?

Can Labour learn from its mistakes?

Can Starmer stamp out Labour's antisemitism?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 11/02/24

Is the Labour party already fractured?

Boris Johnson accused of sabotaging Ukraine peace talks

Is Starmer right to ditch his £28 billion green pledge?

Is the prime minister gaffe-prone?

What Liz Truss's PopCon launch was really about

Rishi Sunak admits to failing on NHS waitlists

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 04/02/2024

Arlene Foster: 'a united Ireland is not around the corner'

Should ex-MPs stop shilling for foreign rulers?

Is Labour the party of business?

Sturgeon paints herself as perfect at Covid Inquiry

What could still scupper Northern Ireland's power-sharing plan?

Why Sunak wants to ban vapes

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 28/01/24

Would Trump and Starmer get on?

Fraser Nelson: governments should never own our press

The Plot: part II

Does Simon Clarke’s intervention matter?

Are the Houthi strikes working?

How far will Hunt cut taxes?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/01/24

How is Cameron's comeback coming along?

Why won't the Tories back Birbalsingh?

Is the ERG a spent force?

Why Lee Anderson's exit is a problem

Isaac Levido’s warning to the Tory party

Is there a plot to oust Sunak?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/01/2024

Why few voters like Sunak

Britain and US launch airstrikes against Houthis

Can the economy win Tory votes?

Post Office scandal: government to exonerate victims

Paula Vennells hands back her CBE

The problem with Chris Skidmore's resignation

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/01/2024

How will Sunak and Starmer run their election campaigns?

Why aren't the Lib Dems doing better?

Did Sunak steal Starmer's thunder?

Would strike talks be different under Labour?

Is Rishi fishy on the asylum backlog?

2023: The year in review

Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling

Is British support for Israel wavering?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 17/12/2023

Will we avoid recession in 2024?

Another by-election looms for Rishi

Who are the ‘five families’ of Tory rebels?

Sunak wins the Rwanda vote – but the battle is far from over

What if Rishi Sunak loses his crunch Rwanda vote?

What Sunak really said about lockdown

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 10/12/2023

Do the Tories have a death wish?

Is Rishi's Rwanda Bill doomed?

What Jenrick’s resignation means for Sunak’s premiership

Boris faces the music at the Covid inquiry

Are the Tories too little to late on migration?

Was Starmer right to praise Thatcher?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 03/12/2023

The memory and legacy of Alistair Darling

Will Boris surprise at the Covid inquiry?

Is Labour being ‘fundamentally dishonest’?

Has Robert Jenrick gone rogue?

Has No.10 lost its marbles?

Sunak under pressure to curb legal migration

Should Sunak reduce immigration?

What happened in Dublin?

Have we seen peak migration?

The truth about Hunt’s ‘tax cutting’ Autumn Statement

Did Covid expose a 'failure of imagination'?

Why has Rishi Sunak made five more pledges?

Katy Balls' Sunday Roundup - 19/11/2023

What will fix Britain’s prisons?

Can Sunak shift the dial?

Should Starmer worry about the ceasefire rebellion?

Supreme Court rules Rwanda scheme unlawful

Suella tells Rishi: 'You have repeatedly failed to deliver'

Will the Tory right be happy with Sunak's reshuffle?

Sunak’s reshuffle: refresh or rewind?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/11/2023

Has Nadine Dorries lost the plot?

Is Suella Braverman safe for now?

What is Suella Braverman up to?

Will Mark Rowley ban the pro-Palestine protests?

What did King Charles say?

Is Suella Braverman in trouble over rough sleepers?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 05/11/2023

Has WhatsApp ruined government?

Was Rishi Sunak's AI summit a success?

Has the Bank of England done enough to stave off recession?

Did Boris's No. 10 have a women problem?

Did anything new come from the Covid inquiry?

What’s the point of the Covid inquiry?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 29/10/23

Can Conservatism fix its pathway of decline?

Will Starmer cave in to calls for a Gaza ceasefire?

Can Starmer change the subject?

Keir Starmer’s Israel problem is growing

Labour's foreign policy problem

One year on: does Sunak have anything to celebrate?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday roundup - 22/10/2023

What can we hope to learn from the Covid inquiry?

Are the Tories facing a 97’ style defeat?

Sunak tells Israel: ‘We want you to win’

Has inflation stuck?

Has Humza Yousaf turned things around?

How long can the cross-party consensus on Israel hold?

What does the government mean by 'Texas-style justice'?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 15/10/23

What is Israel's army capable of?

The winners and losers of this year’s conference season

Why did Lisa Cameron defect to the Tories?

Can Labour really overhaul the NHS?

If not the Tories, why Labour?

Rachel Reeves goes for growth

How's the mood at Labour conference?

Is Rishi Sunak right about Rwanda?

Has Brexit Failed?

Scottish Labour moves right – and wins

What's behind the PM's plan to axe A-levels?

Rishi Sunak's conference speech gamble

What's going on with HS2?

Are the Tories preparing for opposition?

Coffee House Shots Live: Who would vote Tory?

How's the mood at Tory conference?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 01/10/23

When conferences go wrong

Is the UK doomed to be a high tax country?

What’s behind Labour’s private school U-turn?

Would Labour grant more oil licences?

Is Suella after the Tory leadership?

Is Sunak helping Starmer on HS2?

Is it time to take the Lib Dems seriously again?

What’s next for the Murdoch empire?

Why can’t Hunt cut taxes?

What is Sunakism?

Why Sunak wants to dilute net zero

Will Starmer soften Brexit?

What Liz Truss’s big speech was really about

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 17/09/23

How America’s 2024 election will affect Britain’s

Is it right to cut back HS2?

What is Starmer’s small boats plan?

Is Labour the party of the pensioner?

Will Rishi axe the pensions triple lock?

'Chinese spy' arrest – what we know so far

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 10/09/23

Is Humza Yousaf a people-pleaser?

India trade deal: is this what Brexit was for?

Tories face ninth by-election – are they ruined?

Was Truss doomed to fail?

Who’s to blame for the concrete crisis?

Who's in and who's out as Keir reshuffles his shadow cabinet?

How did the Tories not see the school concrete crisis coming?

What does Theresa May want?

Who is Claire Coutinho?

Can Cleverly handle China?

Who will take Nadine Dorries’s seat?

Does Nadine Dorries have a point?