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Instant political analysis from the Spectator's top team of writers, including Fraser Nelson, James Forsyth, Isabel Hardman, Katy Balls, Alex Massie and many others.
Keir Starmer has given what was billed as a make-or-break having spent the weekend under fire from his own party. He tried to strike a more...
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. The results are in, and it's not looking good for Labour. How long...
As the full picture of the local elections emerges, Labour faces a dilemma: stick with Keir Starmer, or put forward an alternative. Calls fo...
This is your evening local elections update delivered by James Heale, Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman – all in just 10 minutes. As results come...
It’s results day, and Nigel Farage is the local elections winner – again. A wave of teal has swept the country, stealing Labour seats from H...
It’s polling day! Tim and James take the opportunity to go through their favourite political books ever, fiction and non-fiction. They discu...
As voters prepare to go to the polls in a set of local elections that could redraw the political map, we examine the ‘outsiders’ on today’s...
The local elections are nearly upon us. Political editor Tim Shipman and deputy political editor James Heale bring you the one-stop shop pod...
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. Politicians react to potential bans on Palestine marches, in the w...
The Conservative party was once the natural political home for those on the right. No longer. The Tories’ vote share collapsed at the 2024 g...
The assisted dying bill has stalled in the House of Lords – but is it dead, or merely delayed? After weeks of fraught debate, multiple amend...
Hereditary peers have left their red leather benches for the final time. The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act became law earlier this y...
Does Keir Starmer have confidence in Rachel Reeves? Kemi Badenoch pressed the Prime Minister on his Chancellor’s future at PMQs – and he dec...
It’s a blockbuster day in parliament today. To kick things off, we had Philip Barton pleading ignorance; to close the proceedings tonight we...
King Charles is about to travel to Washington to visit President Trump. The brief? Fix the strained relationship. No pressure! Can royal dip...
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. President Trump survives another potential assassination attempt,...
Is Labour about to lose Wales? That’s what the polling suggests. After 27 years, Wales is seeking change. The beneficiaries look to be the o...
The long-debated assisted dying bill is expected to fail in the House of Lords today – described by the bill's leading advocate Lord Falcone...
Somewhere in the documents surrounding Peter Mandelson’s ambassadorial appointment, the Spectator' s political editor Tim Shipman reveals, i...
It will come as no surprise that Keir Starmer appears to have heard a very different evidence session from Sir Olly Robbins to the one every...
'The most gripping testimony' since Dominic Cummings which could prove 'extraordinary and quietly devastating' for Keir Starmer. That's the...
Westminster is braced ahead of two key interventions in the Mandelson scandal. This afternoon, the prime minister will give a statement in w...
Liberal Democrat peer Mark Pack and MP for Surrey Heath Al Pinkerton join James Heale to explain that it is a matter of 'when not if' the pa...
Danny Kruger joins James Heale to set out Reform’s plan to overhaul the British state – from taking on the civil service to restoring minist...
The Peter Mandelson scandal just got more scandalous. Last night the story broke that Mandeslon actually failed his enhanced vetting before...
It is a hard time to be a Labour MP. The polls are flagging, the economy is stagnating and the Middle East remains in crisis. But facing ele...
PMQs is back and – predictably – Lord Robertson’s intervention on the state of the armed forces dominated proceedings. The Prime Minister ga...
George Robertson (pictured), a former defence secretary and former NATO secretary-general, has accused the government of 'corrosive complace...
Two big stories to chew over on today’s podcast, starting with Viktor Orban’s landslide defeat in Hungary. The left have been celebrating th...
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. No end in sight to the conflict in the Middle East, as negotiation...
With one month to go until the local and regional elections, Megan McElroy and James Heale have hit the road with Luke Tryl and Louis O'Gera...
Gawain Towler, Reform UK board member and their former director of communications, sits down with James Heale to talk about Reform's appeal...
In the magazine this week, Ben Judah – former adviser in the Foreign Office – makes the case for ‘Anglo-Gaullism’. He says that Britain shou...
The new cabinet secretary, Antonia Romeo, has published a list of objectives setting out her vision for what the civil service will look lik...
We are hours away from Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz. The President has ‘chickened out’ many times before...
Labour won the 2024 general election in part by focusing on ‘hero voters’ – so called because they may have voted Labour in the past but fel...
Opinion polls consistently show Keir Starmer as one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in history. His critics point to inertia and a lac...
Can the Conservatives win back voters' support through a new kind of 'conservative radicalism'? Jack Rankin, Conservative MP for Windsor, jo...
Charles Grant from the Centre for European Reform and Tim Shipman join James Heale to reflect on the rumours about Britain's latest set of n...
Donald Trump has said he is 'strongly considering' pulling the US out of NATO, in comments made to the Telegraph – and it doesn't appear to...
The IMF has warned Britain is particularly vulnerable to another spike in energy prices, and is more exposed than many of its European neigh...
Patrick Maguire, chief political writer at The Times , sits down with Tim Shipman for a reflection on Labour's odd year so far. From potenti...
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. The Iran conflict has reached its second month. Figures from acros...
Should we defund – or defend – the BBC? Live from London, the Spectator hosted a debate on the future of this iconic British institution, co...
The panic has set in around the cabinet table about this energy crisis, and fears of history repeating itself. Tim Shipman writes in the mag...
Questions are being asked about Morgan McSweeney's missing phone, which he reported stolen to police last year. What might seem like a minor...
In the final Prime Minister's Questions before Easter recess, Kemi Badenoch pushed Keir Starmer to commit to new oil & gas drilling licences...
Britain’s response to the conflict in Iran is dominating Westminster – but is Keir Starmer really keeping the country out of war? After a te...
Three big stories are on the agenda this morning: the war in Iran has dominated over the weekend, with Trump now failing to conceal his feel...
This week James Heale and Tim Shipman share a byline to tell the story of Reform since the 2024 election, and where they are going. Nigel Fa...