How bad is the economy, Healey?
New inflation figures – showing the highest increase for several months – have done little to insulate John Healey from the stormy weather o...
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The battle for (rural) Britain
Labour is facing growing criticism from rural Britain, with the Countryside Alliance calling for a ‘rural reset’ between the government and...
Reform's £72m donation – how will they spend it?
Reform UK received a record-breaking £72 million in donations over the weekend from two crypto billionaires – meaning the party has received...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/09/2026
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. Reform have newfound riches. What does this mean for the future of...
Holy Smoke: Catholic Burnham barred – should the law change?
Andy Burnham has announced his intention to change a law which bars him from advising the King on appointments to the Church of England. The...
Laura Trott: 'Labour are kowtowing to the unions'
England's 15-year-olds came eighth in the world for science, ninth for reading and tenth for maths in Tuesday's Pisa results, though it took...
Assisted dying dead – for now
James Heale joins Patrick Gibbons to react to the news that MPs have voted against Assisted Dying. The vote was close – 286 vs 270 – but not...
Assisted dying is back: what does Burnham think?
The topic of assisted dying returns to Parliament today, with a vote scheduled in the Commons this afternoon. Labour MP Lauren Evans has use...
The most powerful woman in Britain
After plans emerged for the Cabinet Secretary, Dame Antonia Romeo, to consolidate power across the civil service this week, Oscar Edmondson...
Burnham’s BIG blunder
It's only Burnham's second PMQs and he's already dropped a clanger. He may have handed the Conservatives their next election slogan after de...
Why Ed Miliband is taking on Israel
Ed Miliband has made his first major intervention as Foreign Secretary, with Britain set to announce a trade ban on Israeli settlements in t...
‘Andy Burnham did the Tories a huge favour’ | Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Sir Malcolm Rifkind joins Tim Shipman and James Heale to discuss the future of the conservatism and tells The Spectator why Kemi Badenoch is...
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 06/09/2026
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows. Nigel Farage is on the defence again, after two senior Reform offi...
LIVE | Reform conference round-up – everything you need to know
Noa Hoffman, James Heale and Tim Shipman host a special live recording of Coffee House Shots from Reform conference. They discuss whether a...
Reform in crisis after Channel 4 sting
There are grey clouds over day two of Reform UK’s conference after a Channel 4 investigation caused heads to roll. The party announced this...
Chris Philp: mass immigration is making Britain ‘ungovernable’
Chris Philp joins James Heale to discuss what the Conservatives got wrong on immigration – and how they plan to fix it. The shadow Home Secr...
Burnham's 'new politics' is much the same as the old
After his first PMQs Andy Burnham came away relatively unscathed, although his dream of a 'new politics' may be rapidly falling apart. To di...
Politics returns: Tories reshuffle & Starmer slopes off
Politics is back – and it’s a bumper day in Westminster. Kemi Badenoch got ahead of the field yesterday by reshuffling her top team a day ea...
Reality Check: who's left to tax?
To listen to more from the Reality Check podcast, go to spectator.com/reality-check With two months to go until Andy Burnham and John Healey...
How to write about Farage
Reform has spent the summer taking lumps out of itself, with the battles leaking into public view, and it's position in the polls slipping t...