William Atkinson

Speaking to the BBC last week, Michael Gove, former Cabinet minister, current Spectator editor, and future chief villain of The Plot 2: Election Boogaloo , was asked the inevitable question: Kemi Badenoch, or Robert Jenrick.

I'm just a blogger. My professional career has so far consisted of a few months teaching and two and a half years writing about politics. I defer to any entrepreneurial readers as to the exact labouriousness of running a business under socialism. But I do seem to be more aware than the Cabinet that making life more difficult for the private sector is unlikely to be good for growth.

We should stick to Sunak's balancing act, rather than lurching between environmental extremes: pro-measures to improve our natural world, reduce emissions, and preserve our inheritance for the next generation, but realistic about costs and public support. We cannot bankrupt ourselves pursuing Net Zero. Fields must give way to reactors. It's not easy being green.

Last week, having run out of episodes of Married at First Sight UK to watch, I turned to Quentin Skinner's peerless short guide to Niccolo Machiavelli.

After Rachel Reeves’s dispatch box performance, every little girl in Britain can grow up knowing that she too could one day break her manifesto promises.

The Conservative party suffered an unprecedented defeat in July. It has no right to exist. Badenoch must prove to voters that it can deliver.

Kemi Badenoch must be wholeheartedly congratulated in her moment of triumph. Her victory was hardly unexpected. She has been leading in ConservativeHome surveys since 2022.

12:30 AM Laura Trott has been appointed as the Shadow Education Secretary. Formerly the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then the equivalent

History repeats, first as tragedy, second as farce. To describe Liz Truss's premiership as a strategy would be too kind; to describe Kemi Badenoch's

The full list has been released ahead of the first meeting of the Shadow Cabinet