James Heale
Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Political Correspondent @spectator Co-author of 'Out of the Blue' - Sunday Times politics book of 2022
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | James Heale
It is the eternal question for UK policymakers: America or Europe? For the past nine months, Keir Starmer has sought to follow his 17 post-war predecessors in maintaining an uneasy balancing act between the two. But the Prime Minister’s tricky task has been made even more difficult by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | James Heale
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments It is the eternal question for UK policymakers: America or Europe? For the past nine months, Keir Starmer has sought to follow his 17 post-war predecessors in maintaining an uneasy balancing act between the two. But the Prime Minister’s tricky task has been made even more difficult by Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The President is a lifelong Eurosceptic, declaring in February that ‘the European Union was...
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | James Heale
In truth, there was little that was new in Nigel Farage’s speech today. For more than a decade, he has positioned himself as commander of the ‘people’s army’, fearlessly ‘parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn.’ First, it was Ukip, then it was the Brexit party. Now, his chosen vehicle to crush the establishment is Reform.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | James Heale
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments In truth, there was little that was new in Nigel Farage’s speech today. For more than a decade, he has positioned himself as commander of the ‘people’s army’, fearlessly ‘parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn.’ First, it was Ukip, then it was the Brexit party. Now, his chosen vehicle to crush the establishment is Reform. All the greatest hits were played at today’s party rally: taxes are too high, migration is out of...
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | James Heale
Much of the commentary on the local elections has focused thus far on the Tories’ southern discontent. But today, Nigel Farage will turn his guns on the north of England, as he seeks to position his party as the real challenger to Labour across swathes of the so-called ‘red wall’.
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Odds compiled by @StarSports_Bet suggest the race is on a knife edge. Their market analysts suggest the Tories have a 36% chance of taking the mayoralty, followed by Mr Campbell on 33%, the LibDems on 25%, and Labour on 20%. It's part city/part rural/part coastal
Wonder how the emergency sitting and renationalisation of the Scunthorpe steel works will go down with communities in Port Talbot. Will be a big factor in South Wales Senedd seats next year.
After George Bush Sr used family values in his re-election campaign to attack “The Simpsons” in January 1992, the show responded in the next episode: https://t.co/wKbjDvYEVj
