And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.

Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.

Telling that BBC Sport have disabled their thumbs up/down buttons. It was at 4k down 100 up within the first 15mins...

Great piece. Interesting to see how you win elections by shoring up your own bloc and not scaring the other bloc to similarly unite/turnout, rather than a huge persuasion campaign.

I hadn't read about your point on the Lib Dem's new voters being left bloc tactical voters rather than Tories, either!

If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025.

Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.

If every leak were 'the Chancellor wants to do three big fiscal consolidations in her 2024, 2025 and 2026 budgets, so that by 2029 debt, interest rates, NHS waiting lists and the court backlog will be falling'....fine and good!

I was wondering this earlier - would Sunak, with Starmer's majority, have governed better? Would we be in a better position as a country?

Thank you!

Could you send the link, please? Can't find it on Google!

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

One hill that I will die on remains that Tony Blair's 2006 conference speech was the last by any Prime Minister, of either party, to advocate for a focused, coherent, realistic vision for the nation's future.

Where is that thinking today - from *any* party? What should 2035 Britain look like?

You'd be forgiven for thinking Starmer is increasingly resembling David Cameron.

Investment without any money, because of the spiralling debt left by the last government. Each day brings a harsher immigration stance to beat Farage, to no avail. Something about devolution, but never a heavy focus.