Sam Freedman
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Friday 25 March 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Sunak’s statement
What just happened
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Friday 25 March 2022
Sunak’s bad bet
He wanted to appeal to voters, but he misjudged them
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Monday 22 November 2021
Social care could be a much bigger problem for Johnson than sleaze
Scandals come and go, but the care crisis has the potential to engulf the prime minister
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Monday 15 November 2021
The starter’s pistol has been fired on the next Tory leadership contest
Boris Johnson is not yet finished, but the race to succeed him is now underway
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Monday 8 November 2021
The Paterson scandal shows that we need major parliamentary reform
Paying MPs more may be controversial but it is only the first of many structural changes required to clean up the Commons
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Tuesday 26 October 2021
Expect no more than theatre from Sunak
In tomorrow’s Budget and spending review, the chancellor will not deliver the road-map to genuine reform so badly needed by the country
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Monday 6 September 2021
Social care is only the start of Rishi Sunak’s problems
The row over paying for social care with national insurance increases foreshadows a daunting series of questions the chancellor must answer before this autumn’s spending review
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Wednesday 14 July 2021
Dominic Cummings is mostly right about the problems, wrong about the solutions
The former adviser’s recent criticisms of Boris Johnson and the government aren’t without merit. But the answers are closer to home than to the moon…
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Thursday 24 June 2021
The red wall is not reactionary
In spite of what you hear on GB News, the supposed cultural divide between the so-called “liberal elite” and ordinary British voters is much less stark than you might suppose
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Tuesday 8 June 2021
The Treasury is failing schoolchildren
By going along with his chancellor, Boris Johnson is failing them too. He has one more chance to put that right