2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (462+ words) We all know why you like Kemi" " No, I don"t think you do, so I"ll tell you A brand may be left unaided by her own popularity it"s true, but it certainly can"t be helped by…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (133+ words) Cheshire West & Chester " Christleton & Huntington Conservatives 1, 214 (32. 9 per cent, +8. 5 on 2023) Green Party 1, 122 (30. 4 per cent, +8. 5) Reform UK 635 (17. 2 per cent, +17. 2) Labour 389 (10. 5 per cent, -9. 3) Lib Dems 331 (9. 0 per cent, -7. 7) Dacorum " Apsley & Corner Hall Lib Dems 742 (32. 9 per cent, -15. 6 on 2023) Reform UK 552 (24. 5 per cent, +24. 5) Conservatives 404 (17. 9 per cent,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (404+ words) Tommy Birch is a Behavioural Scientist, Executive Coach and Leadership Advisor at House of Birch, a local councillor and CPF Area Leader for Hertfordshire. What Healey described, in precise operational language, is a decision that repays serious psychological analysis. Three…...

2+ day, 44+ min ago  (48+ words) The Conservative leader points out that she has been saying the same things about Labour's position on defence investment as the former Defence Secretary tells his own Prime Minister on quitting. The post "He agrees with me" " Badenoch reads Healey's…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (659+ words) As the clock struck just past midday yesterday, John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in protest at the proposed Defence Investment Plan (DIP). Within hours, Tory MPs had readied themselves for battle. None of these criticisms are new. Just take…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (529+ words) John Healey's resignation should concern anyone who takes Britain's security seriously. Not because ministers are irreplaceable. Governments survive resignations. Defence Secretaries come and go. The real question is why one of the few ministers who appeared genuinely committed to strengthening…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (663+ words) Cllr Jeremy Maddocks is a councillor for Palace & Hurlingham Ward on Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Among the most frequent complaints was the regular and open use of cannabis. To some, this may sound trivial. To many residents, however " particularly parents,…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (806+ words) Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of'The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. A glimpse of the lonely death of handcuffed Henry Nowak bleeding out on a street in Southampton has been shared with the world. Few…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (290+ words) Ted Newson is a researcher at The Global Warming Policy Foundation. China, meanwhile, is using more coal to plug the gap left by shocks to LNG imports. This difference matters. Energy systems dominated by firm power tend to deliver lower…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (481+ words) I've known John Healey many years, and always found him effective, decent, diffident, thoughtful and principled. It's within that prism that he's quit today as Defence Secretary unwilling to sell the indefensible and exposing that it is indefensible despite the…...