Daniel Hannan

What the blue blistering blazes was Rishi Sunak thinking? What possessed him to call an early election? Look at what has happened in the three months since.

It has been the most efficient offensive of the entire war. Ukrainian intelligence identified the Russians' weak points . Special forces crossed the frontier in advance to prepare the ground.

It's not the dishonesty that stings. It's how Labour insults our intelligence. Sir Keir Starmer's attempt to shift the blame for his coming tax rises is so brazen.

You get the picture. This was not a neutral body disinterestedly seeking the truth. Rather, it was reasoning backwards from its prejudices, namely that Eurosceptics are dishonest people, and that there must be some technicality on which they can be tripped up.

It must have seemed a brilliant wheeze. Labour would offer the EU some juicy concessions as an opening gesture, a way to (as David Lammy keeps

Keir Starmer and David Lammy headed to Berlin and Brussels as supplicants – they could have walked with heads held high

You know what keeps me writing these columns? The salary. I'm sorry to disappoint readers who imagined that I was doing it out of altruistic zeal, but

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020 and is now President of the Institute for Free Trade.

The images of freed criminals celebrating outside jails will remain in the minds of voters for years to come

DANIEL HANNAN: Modern people rarely think about death. We tuck it away in hospitals and care homes, we euphemise it in a hundred ways, we rarely see a corpse. But this is not a debate we can avoid.