Robert Colvile

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

When they were plotting Labour’s election victory, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves had a clear diagnosis. Labour had lost the last few elections, an aide told The Times, “because we’ve gone into them

In 40 years only 18 teachers in the UK were fired for incompetence