Allister Heath

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Allister Heath

Britain has crossed the Rubicon. Nigel Farage is no longer the leader of a protest party. At the age of 61, he has graduated to being prime minister-in-waiting. His announcements are setting the agenda. He is ahead in the polls. He is winning by-elections. He controls his party with an iron fist. He boasts a huge following on social media.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Allister Heath

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Allister Heath

Like a retreating horde of marauders determined to bequeath a wasteland to the liberators, Labour is resorting to the vilest of scorched earth tactics. The more his popularity collapses, the less Sir Keir Starmer has to lose, and the more dangerous he becomes in his desperation to force through progressive shibboleths. His Government’s frenetic intensity is terrifying.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Allister Heath

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Allister Heath

For thirty years, at every election, Labour and the Conservatives pledged to reduce immigration, and then did the opposite. Far from feeling any contrition, let alone apologising, many of these politicians, convinced of their superior morality and grasp of economics, seemed proud to defy a “bigoted” electorate. This was the foundational lie at the heart of modern politics, an unforgivable breach of trust.