Robert Colvile

The Conservatives must make the party seem normal again — or be tarnished by Tim Walz’s damaging label as the Republicans have been in America

Invented 70 years ago, the ‘green belt’ is one of the branding triumphs of British politics, but it isn’t all so green. And it may not all be worth saving. Scroll down to check your postcode in our interactive map

In Italy, each prison year served was estimated to prevent 14 to 46 crimes

Doctors can only treat the patients in front of them. If Britons eat better and drink less, it could save the health service hundreds of billions of pounds

Labour should leave decisions on flexible working to the parties that know best: employers themselves

Visa officers in Monaco and Abu Dhabi have apparently been working overtime over the summer, processing those fleeing the UK. Because it’s not just the non-doms

There is some truth in Conservatives’ complaints about laws, rules and regulators but the party should beware putting all of its eggs in one basket

Rachel Reeves is casting around to fill the fiscal hole. But in that process she is constrained by the promises she has made

Three months into a five-year term, we are talking about a ‘make or break’ moment

Kemi Badenoch beware, there is no guarantee that voters will return to the blue team after being brutalised by Labour