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Isabel Hardman

Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of ‘The Spectator’ magazine. She writes a monthly column on health policy for i

Article thumbnail: File photo dated 16/05/24 of Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, deputy leader Angela Rayner (right), and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left) during their visit to the Backstage Centre, Purfleet, for the launch of Labour's doorstep offer to voters ahead of the general election. Issue date: Friday July 5, 2024. PA Photo. After six weeks under the campaign spotlight - and four years after taking the helm of the party - to many voters, their new Prime Minister remains something of an unknown quantity. See PA story POLITICS ElectionStarmer. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
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There's an explosive row about class brewing in Labour's equality act

Often the biggest scraps are within a Government, between Cabinet Ministers with different priorities

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Ed Davey's 'too trusting' defence unravels at Post Office inquiry

Isabel Hardman

Time for Nigel Farage to show us what he’s really made of

Article thumbnail: Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair attend the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's annual Future of Britain Conference, in London, Britain, July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Claudia Greco
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Gaza cost Labour seats – Starmer needs a new plan for Israel

Isabel Hardman

We are about to meet Keir the controller

Article thumbnail: Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turns on the power in the training centre control room as he is given a tour of the Sizewell B nuclear power facility by Station Director Robert Gunn on June 19, 2024 in Sizewell, Britain. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
Article thumbnail: Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turns on the power in the training centre control room as he is given a tour of the Sizewell B nuclear power facility by Station Director Robert Gunn on June 19, 2024 in Sizewell, Britain. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
Article thumbnail: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), in the House of Commons in central London, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / UK Parliament" (Photo by -/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), in the House of Commons in central London, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / UK Parliament" (Photo by -/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: A good proportion of the Tory MPs in Parliament after the election won’t be from the exhausted bunch who’ve been around for years (Photo; BENJAMIN CREMEL/Pool via REUTERS)
Article thumbnail: A good proportion of the Tory MPs in Parliament after the election won’t be from the exhausted bunch who’ve been around for years (Photo; BENJAMIN CREMEL/Pool via REUTERS)
Article thumbnail: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty stand with D-Day veteran Alec Penstone, 98, following the UK national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, held at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2024. Gareth Fuller/Pool via REUTERS
Article thumbnail: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty stand with D-Day veteran Alec Penstone, 98, following the UK national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, held at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2024. Gareth Fuller/Pool via REUTERS