Public Affairs and Policy

Rachel Reeves was already facing one of the biggest challenges experienced by any Chancellor of the modern era in the run-up to what...

‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;’ – Words written by English poet Rudyard...

Ireland elected a new President at the weekend. Independent candidate Catherine Connolly, who was backed by a coalition of left-wing...

Entering the final week of an election campaign is a bit like an athlete taking the bell in a big race – one last lap, leaving it all...

‘A lot can happen in four weeks. Reputations can be enhanced or destroyed in that time. Voices can be lost or found. Momentum can...

Blue skies for Starmer in Liverpool but Budget storm clouds billow

So, now we know definitively that we have three candidates running to be the next President of Ireland – Catherine Connolly TD...

Is image still everything in presidential campaigns?

But the rise of the PM’s favourites may not be what causes him problems.

"But you will want to consider her ongoing responsibilities in the light of this". With those fourteen words, the Prime...

Whitehall reshuffles really shouldn’t be held at the same time as football’s transfer deadline day.

TWIN spectres haunted Rachel Reeves today as she delivered Labour’s first Spending Review since 2007: Nigel Farage and Liz Truss.