OPINION

Quick summary of the ERG’s – sorry, your next Prime Minister’s plans for Britain.

— Our next PM, supported by a global network of free-market think tanks, will attempt to turn Britain into a Libertarian-Right dystopia by enacting the insane and cruel policies outlined in a book by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s dad.

Conservative Leadership Contest

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss head-to-head to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister – How their prospects compare.

— As Conservative party members choose between the former chancellor and the foreign secretary, the real question for them now isn’t who would be the better leader but who could win against Labour?

Conservative Leadership Contest

Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Polling shows party members want her – but the wider voting public would choose him.

— Will Conservative Party members choose their preferred leader to become the new Prime Minister or the candidate who is more popular with the wider public?

Conservative Leadership Contest

Conservative leadership election: Why tax cuts are an economic gamble.

— Some leadership contenders seem to have big plans for a smaller state.

Conservative Leadership Contest

Tory leadership hopefuls fail to address the reality that Brexit is a disaster.

— LBC presenter James O’Brien explains everything that needs to be understood about the current Conservative Leadership contestants and their failure to recognise that Brexit is an escalating national tragedy.

Conservative Leadership Contest

What happens – and when – in the race to replace Boris Johnson.

— Conservative MPs vote in the first round and members in the second.

Brexit

Brexit is shaming Britain.

— Professor Chris Grey’s detailed analysis of the NIPB in relation to the internal politics of the Tory Party and the wider politics of Brexit. But no amount of analysis can ignore the shame it brings to Britain.

Brexit

Why the UK government’s plan to change the Northern Ireland Protocol violates international law.

— Businesses in Northern Ireland largely support the protocol, as do the political parties who got the most support in recent assembly elections. So why does the government still plan to override the Northern Ireland protocol, in breach with the UK’s legal obligations?

Brexit

All too predictable.

— A key rule of politics is that you need to ‘be in the room’ and Brexit Britain isn’t, at least metaphorically and sometimes literally.

Brexit

Will Truss press the re-set button?

— As the false claims made about the benefits of Brexit are gradually being found out, Brexit isn’t suffering from a failure to control the narrative. It’s suffering from failure, Professor Chris Grey writes.

Brexit

Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history.

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on the recent spate of Brexiter anxiety about Brexit realities, the conundrum this poses for Boris Johnson, and why it matters so much to Brexiters – and to all of us.

Analysis

Brexit returns to its roots.

— Professor Chris Grey unpicking Frost’s resignation, and arguing that it shows how Brexit events and policy are once again entirely about the toxic internal politics of the Conservative Party.

COMMENT

21st century Britain: Still the ‘emancipated empire’?

— Is history best looked at once we have finished with the future, as UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss seems to believe?