James Price was previously chief of staff to the chancellor of the exchequer.
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My friends never let me forget the first time I came to London. They couldn’t understand why I was so desperate to cross the city to meet them at London Bridge when I was coming into Paddington. The reason was simple: I thought London Bridge was actually Tower Bridge. I wanted to see this icon
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There’s a reason why centrists keep failing: their formula of triangulating between two sides of a debate in order to appear balanced, or to hedge against being wrong, won’t win over voters. It suggests a lack of leadership that should have no place in politics, especially when Britain faces such clearly identifiable problems. The centrists
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Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform party conference may have been, for the most part, heavy on spectacle and light on detail. But one crucial policy was offered: a pledge to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 with the goal of bringing about a universal caliphate under sharia
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Today at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour MP Tahir Ali asked: ‘Will the Prime Minister commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions?’ Does Mr Ali think this is the most important issue currently facing the UK? Or, even more disturbingly, is this something
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Another day, another controversial new announcement from a Conservative campaign keen to show that it has new ideas. Today, it is the so-called ‘Triple Lock Plus’, which will mean that, should the Tories get back in, pensioners’ tax-free allowance will automatically increase in line with the highest of wages, earnings, or 2.5 per cent. The
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On Tuesday, parliament voted for the first time on legislation to begin the phasing out of smoking (not just cigarettes, but cigars, shisha, you name it), and to create a two-tier legal system where some adults will be able to buy these products, and some won’t. Although the ban seems popular with the public, it
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Brewdog, the Scotland-based brewery that has exploded into an international business in the last 15 years, is never far from the headlines. It held a competition to brew the world’s strongest beer and created another named Speedball after the drug cocktail of cocaine and heroin. The company has been happy to not so much court controversy as
