Will Prescott is a Senior Research Fellow at Bright Blue. He has a DPhil in history from the University of Oxford on the British Conservative Party and the role of the state between 1929 and 1940
Reform leader Nigel Farage likes to claim that his latest political vehicle is on course to replace the ‘old fuddy duddy’ Conservative party as the dominant force on the centre-right. While the parallel is not exact, comparing today’s battle for the centre-right with the last major party realignment – when Labour replaced the Liberals as
Since Labour’s triumphant return to power barely a year ago, the party in government has floundered amid a struggling economy, a lack of political vision, and an inability to pass difficult reforms. Unfortunately for Keir Starmer, the situation could yet deteriorate much further. Just look at the implosion of the Labour government in 1931. Like
Donald Trump thinks ‘tariff’ is the ‘most beautiful word in the dictionary’. Today is ‘Liberation Day’, and the US president is holding true to his campaign trail promise to impose tariffs on imports. Cars, steel and aluminium are expected to be hit with levies of up to 25 per cent. A 10 to 20 per
