Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

9-2-2022

Boris Johnson ‘likely to run for PM again after building up bank balance’

Tory peer Lord Marland, a longstanding friend of the Prime Minister, says there is a ‘distinct possibility’ that he will again aim for No 10

Is the Boris partygate probe ‘flawed’

More News, Less Views at GB News

9-4-2022

Why price controls and windfall taxes do not work

9-5-2022

Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Sri Lanka – three poster countries for price controls

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Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

8-23-2022

Sunak represents a failed establishment orthodoxy. His record means he deserves to lose this contest.

8-27-2022

Paying for energy

Don’t be fooled into thinking this disaster movie is coming to an end

8-29-2022

Competition is the best regulator

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7-6-2022

Steel tariffs will be the nail in the coffin of global Britain

Debate on energy security

7-7-2022

Live: Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister

Defiant to the bitter end, until it was too late – how Boris Johnson became Britain’s Trump

The prime minister resisted resigning until the very last, claiming he owed his mandate to the people, not the politicians – just as Donald Trump saw the mob outside the Capitol as ‘his people’

Instability and an unedifying leadership race ahead as Boris Johnson finally stands down

A new leader will redress the moral deficit, but it is difficult to see them revitalising a very tired and now traumatised government

How Carrie helped blow it for Boris

Will Liz Truss succeed Boris Johnson? Expect the unexpected

A leadership contest is more about who Tory MPs don’t want, than who they endorse as the next PM, writes

7-8-2022

Timeline of why Tory MPs abandoned Boris Johnson and forced him to quit

Ready for Rishi?

Sunak launches leadership bid

Rishi Sunak – Ex-chancellor launches Tory leadership bid after Boris Johnson resigns

Just days ago, the former chancellor quit the Treasury in protest over Johnson’s leadership

The problem with Tom Tugendhat’s ‘clean start’ manifesto

Rishi Sunak sparks full-blown leadership race as he unveils his bid to replace Boris Johnson

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4-13-2022

What estimate has the Health Secretary made of total NHS redundancy payments for the last year?

4-14-2022

You haven’t been bullied because you think you’ve been bullied

Government Slammed Over Pandemic Waste on “Cultural Claptrap”

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4-5-2022

Ease the squeeze

4-6-2022

The latest tax rise marks the suspension of Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign

As national insurance goes up – the chancellor’s prospects go down

The latest CO2 report

4-7-2022

The Government defends free speech for councillors

George Eustice, negotiating agriculture’s future between farmers, free traders, protectionists and rewilders

4-9-2022

The changing face of No. 10

Progressives vs populists: Macron, Orban and Europe’s faultline

Nicola Sturgeon’s secret state

4-11-2022

Cops could BAN eco-warrior protests blocking fuel as ‘shortages’ spark huge queues

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3-28-2022

Starmer won’t talk about sex and gender. That’s a problem

3-29-2022

3-31-2022

UK Regulator Withdraws Lancashire Fracking Wells Concreting Order

Starmer changes Labour’s slogan (again)

4-1-2022

The cost of living crisis would be better termed a poverty crisis

The only way many households will manage to get by is cutting back on food spending and reducing their usage of gas and electricity at home

Hartley-Brewer Versus Question Time Climate Activist: “You’re part of the problem!”

Normal people are paying the price for NHS failures

4-2-2022

The government cannot protect everyone from every price rise but it must do more to help those in need

Now that the cap on most energy bills has actually been lifted, people face real hardship

4-3-2022

Climate Lunatic Clues Hand to LBC Mic Mid-Interview

4-4-2022

How to gain popular consent for fracking

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Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

3-23-2022

Rishi Sunak has just defined the next election

Will Macron surrender to the mob?

The French President is giving violent rioters what they want

3-24-2022

Sunak’s mini-budget. A response to war and poverty? Or a reaction to criticism over tax?

Many of the measures in the statement were welcome. But is the Chancellor too easily spooked by his critics on the Right?

Rishi Sunak has set a trap for Labour at the next election

Pain now, jam and a tax cut tomorrow: John Rentoul on the chancellor’s plan to win in 2024

3-25-2022

Rishi Sunak’s headache the day after he thought it had gone so well

The callousness of the spring statement towards people who rely on benefits or the state pension became clearer today

3-26-2022

China may be facing its greatest Covid crisis yet

3-28-2022

It’s a thumbs-up for Johnson as a war leader. From Ukrainians themselves – and here at home so far.

Grouping pupils to ensure they have the skills they need doesn’t restrict them – it frees them

Starmer Can’t Say Whether Women Can Have Penises

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Looking at the news and opinion out of London each day.

3-8-2022

Restoring confidence in policing will involve some hard choices

Fatherhood is a risk men aren’t willing to take

Bercow Goes Full Trump As Standards Panel Finds Him Guilty of Bullying

Why block energy wells just when we need them?

While Putin’s rape of Ukraine creates energy insecurity, to deny ourselves indigenous production of shale gas is crazy green dogmatism

3-9-2022

We need to cut fuel duty and set up a new regulator to protect motorists

No 10 won’t rule out return of fracking in UK as energy prices soar

No 10 say Boris Johnson is looking at ‘all options’ to boost the energy supply in the UK

Boris Second Only to Zelensky in Ukrainian Popularity Poll

3-11-2022

Can Boris get the Saudis to pump more oil?

With Biden and Mohammed bin Salman not talking, the UK could get the Saudis to talk to the West

New Study Ranks UK 102nd Out of 191 For Excess Covid Deaths

Free trade

3-12-2022

The case for free trade

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3-4-2022

Labour holds Birmingham Erdington on a low turnout

3-5-2022

Keir Starmer revives Partygate row, accusing Boris Johnson of attempt to cover up ‘wrongdoing’

Labour leader condemns scandal for first time since Ukraine invasion – but stops short of previous demand for prime minister to quit

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1-7-21

Boris should bring in an Erasmus for the Home Nations

Now that the deal is done and all of the arrangements are in place, a section of Brexiteers seem to be waking up to the implications of Boris Johnson’s capitulation to Brussels on the status of Northern Ireland.

Auto-rant, bullshit and self-pity. The conspiracists who stormed the senate. And their right-wing equivalents here.

The centre-right mainstream will be frantically galloping this morning to put as much distance as possible between itself and Donald Trump.

1-6-21

Vaccinations

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Across The Pond is edited daily by Steve Parkhurst. Steve is a political consultant, a baseball beat writer, a writer at his blog as well as a Senior Editor here at US Daily Review. Follow Steve on Twitter  @SteveParkhurst