Westminster is buzzing today about a shock YouGov poll which showed the Conservatives losing, rather than gaining seats. But what’s going on? The latest guest on CapX’s Free Exchange podcast happens to be the best possible person to answer that question. Andrew Cooper, now Lord Cooper of Windrush, is co-founder of Populus, and was one […]
Lord Owen was Britain’s youngest ever Foreign Secretary – before quitting Labour to form his own party. He’s been a peacekeeper in the Balkans, a businessman, a doctor, an author and one of Britain’s best-known politicians. In the latest edition of Free Exchange (recorded before the election was called), he talks to Robert Colvile about […]
Sue Cameron is one of Britain’s pre-eminent observers of that most fascinating of species: the British civil servant. Her work as a journalist for the Financial Times, Telegraph, Civil Service World and Newsnight has focused on the people who, some would argue, really run the country. In the latest episode of Free Exchange, the CapX […]
In 1993, a profile of Frank Field described him as “a holy man in a wicked world”. If anything, Field has got more holy even as the world has got more wicked. As Labour MP for Birkenhead, he has championed such un-Labour causes as welfare reform and immigration control, while also playing a leading role in […]
Years before Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, Nick Cohen had diagnosed the pathologies that led to his rise. Cohen – a columnist on The Observer and blogger for The Spectator – became first disillusioned and then enraged by how his colleagues on the Left would leap to the defence of any tyrant, […]
Daniel Hannan MEP is a Shakespeare fan, a pioneering advocate of localism, as well as a former colleague of mine on the Telegraph‘s leader-writing team. But he’s most famous as – in the Guardian‘s words – “the man who brought you Brexit”. Having decided as a student at Oxford that the European Union was turning […]
Peter Oborne is one of Britain’s most important political commentators – the man who diagnosed the malaise of the political class and the rise of post-truth politics years before they became accepted wisdom within Westminster. Yet he’s also a controversial figure, whose views on the West’s policy towards the Islamic world often put him squarely […]
One of the most common complaints about political coverage in Britain – and elsewhere – is that it’s overwhelmingly superficial. It’s all about who’s up and who’s down, what this minister said to that adviser. Even when politicians do talk to the press, it’s just a blizzard of soundbites and buzzwords. Free Exchange, the new […]
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