Enoch Powell

THE WORD is Westminster is that Rishi Sunak will be in his California penthouse by the weekend.Time and again the PM has rejected claims he’ll quit the UK if he loses Thursday’s election. So expect him to quit the UK when he loses…

It is a bold political strategy to say 'don't vote for the other team - they might get ELECTED'.It's even braver to suggest that, once in power, your opponent might actually CHANGE stuff. It merely proves that, even when you're about to…

On the continent, they’ve had his number for quite some time.Five years ago, in a blistering, prescient attack on the walking self-publicity machine that is Nigel Farage, the European Parliament liberal group leader Guy Verhofstadt called…

If there were a movie of Susan Hall’s life, there would be only one title. ‘Susan – Desperately Seeking Attention’.Since day one of the London Mayoral campaign, the Conservative candidate has only had one aim – to get her dangerously…

THERE’S a uncommon magnificence in watching one thing you detest disintegrate earlier than your eyes.A magnificence that shone this week because the parliamentary Tory occasion ate what was left of its twitching, mutilated corpse. We had…

Grant Shapps has come to the defense of Suella Braverman, dismissing the comparisons made between her and the infamous racist Enoch Powell. This comes after Braverman issued a warning about an impending surge of migration, likening it to a…

Right, so where were we when I took a break from this column-writing lark three months ago? Let me see. Boris Johnson was PM, The Queen was on the throne, Liz Truss was just a joke not the punchline to every joke, you could still afford…