Dan Hodges

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Dan Hodges

In his first major speech of last year’s General Election campaign Keir Starmer posed a rhetorical question. Referencing the lingering doubts of swing voters, he confronted their primary concern about Labour. ‘Do I trust them with my money, our borders, our security? My answer is yes, you can, because I have changed this party permanently,’ he said.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Dan Hodges

Finally. The Labour Party have discovered the British white working class do exist. Or, at least, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has. 'White working-class children, and those with special educational needs, do exceptionally poorly,' she admits. 'Put simply, these children have been betrayed, left behind in society's rear-view mirror.'The scale of this betrayal is shocking.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Dan Hodges

On Monday afternoon, as reports began to circulate of a serious incident at Liverpool’s Premier League celebration, I spent an anxious few minutes trying to contact a relative who I knew was attending the parade. On the social media platform ‘X’, people had other priorities.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Dan Hodges

Over the past few months, as Reform surged to a double-digit lead in the opinion polls and triumphed in the local elections, Westminster has reverberated with the same angst-ridden question: ‘Could Nigel Farage really become prime minister?’Today they received their answer. Not only could Nigel Farage become prime minister in a few years time, but for all practical political purposes, he already is. In a heavily trailed speech, Farage threw down the gauntlet to Keir Starmer.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Glen Owen |Dan Hodges

Bank of England warned Downing Street against building a Chinese embassy near sensitive financial centres in London, Trump security advisers have revealedBy GLEN OWEN AND DAN HODGES FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 21:04 EDT, 24 May 2025 | Updated: 21:04 EDT, 24 May 2025 The Bank of England has warned Downing Street against allowing a Chinese embassy to be built near sensitive financial centres in London, Donald Trump’s security advisers have revealed.