Robert Colvile

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

Proposals to tax many lump-sum death benefits cannot be right, morally or legally

Rather than contorting facts to fit with his ideological prejudices, the energy secretary should be honest about the costs

‘Modernisation” is one of those words that it’s hard to be against. Especially not modernisation of the House of Commons. Headline after headline, year after year, has made it clear that the place

Professor Jonathan Portes has been attacking the CPS for its migration estimates. Who's right?

Demanding huge payouts for one of the richest generations in history is folly. And for those born later, auto-enrolment doesn’t guarantee they’re saving enough

Politicians have danced around the issue of how to fund social care for a decade but ultimately it boils down to this: who pays, and how much?

Something in Britain is broken but a ruling class dominated by the comfortable too often fails to notice