Starmer is resigning as an MP. Why do I feel so dispirited? It feels no coincidence that the reputations of those who remain in public life improve more rapidly than those who quit By Tom McTague Photo by Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/ AFP via Getty Back home... See more
My week started in Edinburgh, though not for the Fringe. I was in town to see – name-drop clang – Gordon Brown over the Firth of Forth in Fife (a sentence that will surely remind readers of a certain age of that score line that can never be beaten: East F... See more
And so, a new government – another one – with a new cast list. How are we to think about this latest upheaval in Westminster? Does Andy Burnham and his cabinet represent something radical, as his supporters hope, or conventional, as his detractors reply? ... See more
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When Harold Wilson resigned as prime minister in 1976, the Sunday Telegraph’s Peregrine Worsthorne dismissed the announcement as “another characteristic confidence trick… a final brilliant act of legerdemain”. In other words, he didn’t believe it. Wilson ... See more
