Rachel Cunliffe
Associate Political Editor at The New Statesman
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
The Boston hustings for mayor of Greater Lincolnshire was only on its first question when the tone soured. Rob Waltham, the Conservative candidate and current leader of North Lincolnshire Council, made a jibe about Andrea Jenkyns not living in Lincolnshire. Jenkyns, the Conservative MP in Morley, West Yorkshire, from 2015 until she lost her seat in 2024 and joined Reform, in return accused Waltham of being “disingenuous”.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
Before her 49-day stint as Prime Minister saw her forever associated with a wilting lettuce, the food items most likely to be conjured up by the name “Liz Truss” was undoubtedly pork and cheese. “In December I’ll be in Beijing, opening up new pork markets!” a wide-eyed Truss told the Conservative Party Conference in 2014 before waiting awkwardly for applause.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
There was no end-of-term feel in the Commons today, despite it being the last PMQs before the Easter recess. As with last week’s prelude to the Spring Statement, the clash between Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch was not the main political event of the day. That will come at 9pm UK time, when Donald Trump unveils his “Liberation Day” tariffs and potentially plunges the global economy into trade war and downturn.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
In January 2023, less than three months after entering No 10, Rishi Sunak announced his priorities. The then prime minister made five promises on which the electorate should judge him. Three related to the economy, and the fourth – reducing NHS waiting lists – concerned the area of state failure voters were most likely to notice in their day-to-day lives. The fifth was different. It focused on something beyond the everyday experience of the majority of voters.
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4 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Rachel Cunliffe
What connects: a doodle on a napkin, a musical about Jaffa Cakes, a Beatles song, the relegation of a beloved football club, and a giant “super-cooling” fridge? If you answered “the UK’s broken tax code, obviously”, well done. But if you’re confused as to what on Earth a fridge has to do with HMRC losing £10bn in tax (enough to build, say, 20 hospitals), Dan Neidle has a new radio series for you. Neidle’s name might be familiar.
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"I’d always seen the darkness in his work, but taken it for granted that whatever had been blended up to produce tales interwoven with sexual violence came from a place of compassion. That you could trust him." On Neil Gaiman, the idol of my adolescence. https://t.co/DlHTZJkzJa
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