Hopi Sen Articles

We don’t like to talk about reshuffle insignificance, because it rather rubs people’s face in it. If Andrea Backbench-Marginal has devoted her entire adult life to the cause, and finally makes it all the way to cabinet, and is glimpsed, modest smile on face, slipping...

It is the stuff of nightmares for Labour, but what if David Cameron wins next May? Hopi Sen assesses the Tories’ plans Think about the Tories winning next year. David Cameron emerging from Downing Street, wreathed in smiles. A Dimbleby intoning the words ‘Conservative...

I am an absurdly unsuccessful politico. In almost two decades of political involvement, my highest elected office was two years as a council backbencher, a stint condemned to total irrelevance by my voting to depose the Labour council leader in my first meeting. I was...

Forget Black Rod banging at the Commons entrance and the Earl Marshal's impressive White Wand, (quiet at the back, this is serious constitutional business). The real tradition and flummery of the Queen's speech lay in its adherence to the ancient laws of the...