Our top ten picks of the week

His past acts in Labour Together might see McSweeny forced to leave Starmer on his tod in Number 10

Emma Revell

“Drumming up strong headlines, holding the government to account, and exposing hypocrisy worked well for Labour in Opposition. Now with these revelations about hidden donations to Starmer the Conservatives are giving them a taste of their own medicine.”

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With a chance in opposition to build a Conservatism for the future, are we making the right choices?

David Willetts

“Explaining Government failure because of betrayal by the leadership is familiar on the Left but now it is appearing on the Right. It is a convenient device to avoid confronting awkward questions about what actually is a viable policy.”

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Farage is vulnerable, and will not become PM

Andrew Gimson

“But Starmer could exceed the very low expectations now held out for him.”

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Jeremy Hunt

“Entrepreneurial drive that pushes people to work hard and take risks, including starting a business, comes from a culture of personal responsibility and seeking reward for effort. High taxes and cradle-to-grave welfare undermines that culture.”

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A home for what? The Lib Dems and their hollow pitch to ex-Tories

Tali Fraser

“In sunny Bournemouth, members gathered for Lib Dem conference and Davey summoned his MPs for a dip in the sea, just as their party rowed over a bid to remove trans women from their gender-based diversity quotas. This quite neatly sums it up – the party has made so little impact over the past year that this is what they still turn to.”

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Could nuclear power re-industrialise Britain at last?

Sam Dumitriu

“We are a long-way from spades in the ground, but we have proof of the massive potential of nuclear to re-power British industry with low-carbon energy.”

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We must expose Gary Stevenson’s economic snake oil for what it is

Owen Matthews

“Conservatives cannot afford to ignore charlatans like Stevenson. His pernicious ideas – unchecked – erode faith in capitalism, fuel class warfare, and pave the way for disastrous policies like Labour’s wealth grabs. We must engage head-on.”

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Forget roast swan and paracetamol, or taxi drivers for sharia law, Reform need to wean themselves off always backing Trump

Giles Dilnot

“If Reform are serious about closing the deal with the British electorate, the wiser ones could do worse than heed the warning: there are British voters who might be tempted by Reform UK, who are not huge supporters of everything Trump says.”

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Defections are distractions that cloud a much starker choice for the parties of the Right

Daniel Hannan

“Cut it any way you like, we keep coming back to what the electoral logic dictates, however much the two parties chafe at it. Under first-past-the-post, it would be calamitous to have competing Rightist candidates in every constituency.”

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Our energy supply will be more secure if environmentalists stop holding back small space emission free nuclear

Claire Coutinho

“The major problem we have today is the over-zealous environmental regulations which protect tiny amounts of bats, newts, snails and fish no matter the cost or consequences. The environmental report for Sizewell C was thirty times longer than the complete works of Shakespeare.”

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