Will it Work: The best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign July 3, 2024 Happy Election Eve! To celebrate, here are “Will it Work’s” best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign.
Campaign cock-up of the week: Jibes at Starmer’s Friday nights off fall flat July 3, 2024 Former No 10 advisor Giles Kenningham analyses the worst comms screw-ups. So what took the prize for the worst PR gaffe this week?
This government is out of ideas, out of energy, and deserves to be out of office July 3, 2024 Our verdict on the General Election: this Conservative party deserves a spell on the sidelines
Worst (political) jargon of the week: Landslide! July 3, 2024 Should we be worried? Undoubtedly. Warning signs of a landslide can include “new cracks or unusual bulges in the ground or pavements”.
Four tests to prove if Labour really is The Party of Business July 3, 2024 Like almost everyone I know, I was pitched to the other day by Rachel Reeves. She can talk the talk, but is Labour the party of business?
Tomorrow, vote for change July 3, 2024 This election is not a choice between higher taxes and higher spending, but a chance for a break from instability and neo-liberal governance, says John McTernan Change. That’s the proposition. Labour promise a break from instability. Instead of five Prime Ministers in six years they offer just one – Keir Starmer. A man with a [...]
To avoid five more wasted years, vote for a strong opposition July 3, 2024 Without the growth needed to fund the higher spending his MPs and voters demand, Starmer will resort to appeasing them with anything he can deliver on the cheap: constitutional meddling, banning things and red tape. A mega-majority just makes this more likely, so vote Conservative tomorrow, urges Henry Hill To read some of the commentary [...]
Please welcome the leader of the opposition: Sir Ed Davey July 3, 2024 If some polls are to be believed, Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats could soon be the official opposition, here’s what that would look like, according to former Lib Dem advisor Pablo O’Hana Not since the heady days of Cleggmania has the leader of the Liberal Democrats experienced such a triumphant resurgence. Ed Davey, with his eye-catching [...]
Labour’s plan for growth has a renewed partnership with business at its heart July 3, 2024 The shadow city minister says Labour recognises that our financial services industry, both in London and across the country, is one of Britain’s greatest assets and will be key to returning the country to growth Tomorrow the British people will go to the polls, faced with a clear choice. Five more years of low growth, [...]
The Notebook: Will Labour have the City’s back? July 2, 2024 Lucy McNulty, editor of Following the Rules podcast, takes the notebook pen to talk politics, Brexit, and the need to celebrate the City.