Boris Johnson has pledged the Conservatives will “change and improve” the economy after the pandemic, as the party opens its annual conference in Manchester. Boris Johnson said the country cannot “go back to how things were” before Covid and accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid immigration, and shortages at petrol station,…
A critical political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall crumbling and an exploration of how, in the election of December 2019 a seismic switch to the Tories took place, from Sebastian Payne, Financial Times, Whitehall Editor and an award winning journalist. The red wall formed the foundation of…
Sir Keir Starmer, in an 89-minute, electrifying speech to his party conference “Labour will never again go into an election without a serious plan for government. The country faced a big moment that demands leadership”, and as prime minister he would provide it. Sir Keir set out new policies on mental health, education and housing,…
T Top Huawei boss freed after a deal with the US, ending the row over Meng Wanzhou’s detention in 2018 has led to a ferocious diplomatic row between China and Canada as accusations of retaliation by Beijing. It also strained China’s relations with Canada and the US. Ms Meng, who became a permanent resident of…
J oe Biden, the US President and Prime Minister Boris Johnson held at the White House as UK ministers are pondering joining an existing North American trade pact. Both discussed Northern Ireland, climate change and Afghanistan during the 90 minute meeting. The UK is very keen to strike free trade deals around the world I…
Samuel Moyn, Prominent historian, reveals the dark side of making war more humane. In the years after 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with very little debate or discussion,as the United States carries out military operations around the globe, and it hardly matters who the president is or liberals, or conservatives operate…
How a popularly elected leader and tea boy has steered the world’s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance. Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in the western state of Gujarat and then in India at large- Modi managed…
On Sunday as the Taliban took over Kabul, the capital, the US state department announced that all US embassy staff had been evacuated to Hamid Karzal International Airport which was under US military control. People are scared and think things could go wrong at any moment. The face-covering was mandatory for all women under Taliban…
The Taliban swept into Kabul unopposed on Sunday and have seized the presidential palace with reports that Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has fled the country to Uzbekistan. More than 60 countries have issued a joint statement calling on the Taliban to allow people to leave. The US embassy says all it embassy staff have been…
Jan-Werner Muller, political philosopher and a German teaching history and political philosophy for Princeton University, in his latest Democracy Rules, gives a brisk account about the state of liberal democracy. As the cold war ended the hopes for democracy’s rapid spread to non-democracies dwindled. Concern for its health grew amid backsliding in existing democracies notably …