Benjamin Disraeli Articles

At the last five general elections the British public has voted in favour of a prime minister who offers centrism, charisma, competence and confidence. Labour’s response to this has been to replace Ed Miliband with Jeremy Corbyn. For some it may be difficult to know...

I know the Conservative party has been trying to rebrand itself the workers' party but for the Tory prime minister David Cameron to compare himself with Nye Bevan was quite shameless. It was in answer to a question about the NHS when Cameron claimed there were now...

‘There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative party, before anything else – they have a grand sense of where the votes are,’ suggested Enoch Powell at the height of Margaret Thatcher’s unpopularity in 1981. Over the past two decades that sense appears...

Success has many fathers, particularly if you are a member of Labour’s hard-left and you are discussing elections. The triumphs of 1997, 2001, or 2005 have any number of antecedents: Black Wednesday, John Major, John Redwood, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard,...