Henry Hill

Henry Hill is Deputy Editor of ConservativeHome.

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Xi Jinping has exposed Labour’s foreign policy hypocrisy Calling out human rights abuses is easier in Opposition

19 Nov 2024

Wes Streeting’s NHS league tables are doomed to fail Labour's latest plan won't fix the UK's broken healthcare system

14 Nov 2024

Labour’s Net Zero dream is coming to an end Keir Starmer's 2030 target is almost out of reach

04 Nov 2024

Blaming Liz Truss won’t solve Labour’s problems Britain's economic woes long predate the botched 2022 mini-Budget

01 Nov 2024

Labour’s Chagos deportation deal is an expensive farce Starmer's government is paying £6 million to house arrivals on St Helena

19 Oct 2024

Sue Gray is a reckless choice to advise on devolution Her history in Northern Ireland should serve as a cautionary tale for Labour

07 Oct 2024

Will Kemi Badenoch be the new Boris Johnson? If she fails to reach the Tory leadership final two, she could establish a rival power base

04 Oct 2024

Ed Miliband’s housing plan will make thousands homeless Labour's targeting of landlords will have wider consequences

24 Sep 2024

A decade on, Scottish independence feels impossible Successive SNP leaders have squandered their opportunity since the 2014 vote

18 Sep 2024

Labour Left threatens Starmer over winter fuel allowance Mutinous MPs could undermine the Prime Minister's authority

09 Sep 2024

UK net migration caps won’t work Tom Tugendhat's pledge fails to tackle the root causes of the problem

30 Aug 2024

Can Tom Tugendhat win over the Tory Right? The Conservative leadership contender is dialling up his law-and-order message

14 Aug 2024

Labour risks further unrest with asylum seeker decision Communities do not want to be used as storage by the Home Office

07 Aug 2024

Labour teaches the Tories how power works Britain's new government has demonstrated how easy it is to discard old policies

27 Jul 2024

Long Tory leadership contest is a recipe for chaos Party morale will be damaged by a protracted race

24 Jul 2024

Vaughan Gething: a truly pointless first minister The ill-fated Welsh leader is resigning after four months

16 Jul 2024

Tories have been left with no philosophy — or successor No obvious future leader has emerged from the election rubble

09 Jul 2024

Memo to Tories: chasing Reform votes is a fool’s errand New polls show that tacking to the Right won't benefit the party

15 Jun 2024

Even the Tories don’t believe in their manifesto Rishi Sunak is making empty promises

11 Jun 2024

Vaughan Gething is the new Humza Yousaf The Welsh First Minister has brought about his own downfall

06 Jun 2024

Why is no party talking about the Hackney shooting? Neither Keir Starmer nor Rishi Sunak have a strong pitch on crime

30 May 2024

Rishi Sunak’s national service idea misses the point Britain would be training up an army of low-level administrators

26 May 2024

Is Reform UK already sinking? Richard Tice's party is slipping behind the Lib Dems and Greens

22 May 2024

Tory U-turn is another broken promise on immigration Government rhetoric is increasingly divergent from reality

17 May 2024

Kate Forbes is more dangerous inside government than out John Swinney is taking a big risk with his new deputy

08 May 2024

Local elections: no way back for the Tories The loss of hundreds of councillors is a heavy blow

05 May 2024

Ireland miraculously discovers its hard border Brexit negotiators were played for fools

01 May 2024

Humza Yousaf’s time is running out The collapse of the Bute House Agreement has revealed the SNP's hollow offering

25 Apr 2024

Is Nicola Sturgeon the next domino to fall in SNP probe? The ex-first minister's husband has been charged with embezzlement

19 Apr 2024

Angela Rayner’s hypocrisy will be her undoing Keir Starmer's deputy has made a career out of holding others to high standards

12 Apr 2024

Is lockdown to blame for NHS dissatisfaction? Pandemic aftershocks are still being felt

28 Mar 2024

Leo Varadkar has given Sinn Féin a free pass The Dublin establishment has left fertile ground for republicans

20 Mar 2024

Wales’s new First Minister already plagued by scandal Vaughan Gething risks following the same path as the SNP's Humza Yousaf

17 Mar 2024

New poll hints at looming populist revolt in Britain ONS research shows that only 12% of the public trust political parties

02 Mar 2024

Diversity drive hinders British Army recruitment The military is bemoaning largely self-inflicted problems

26 Feb 2024

The SNP is a spent force New polling paints a worrying picture for Humza Yousaf's party

29 Jan 2024

Keir Starmer is wasting his time attacking populism The Labour leader is mistaking the symptom for the problem

05 Jan 2024

Ireland has no right to challenge the Troubles legacy act Former IRA terrorists have been given an easy ride in recent decades

22 Dec 2023

Labour won’t learn from Mark Drakeford’s failures The outgoing leader achieved almost nothing during his time in office

13 Dec 2023

Jenrick’s departure is more serious than Braverman’s The former minister was seen as a loyalist to the PM

07 Dec 2023

The trouble with Suella Braverman’s revolt Tory MPs will want a unifier as their next leader

15 Nov 2023

Why is Suella Braverman comparing Hamas to the IRA? Westminster continues to show a woeful ignorance of Northern Ireland

09 Nov 2023

Why won’t the police crack down on antisemitism? Certain pro-Palestine protestors are being let off lightly

24 Oct 2023

Why the Conservatives have a shot in London A new poll finds that the Tories are trailing Labour by three points in the capital

27 Sep 2023

Report: America should bring back conscription Researchers are blunt about the implications of the war in Ukraine for the US Army

18 Sep 2023

Grant Shapps inherits an army in decay The Armed Forces are beset by systemic problems

31 Aug 2023

The ghost of New Labour haunts Starmer in Scotland Gordon Brown's backseat driving won't depose the SNP

16 Aug 2023

Welsh Labour is a warning to Keir Starmer The outgoing Mark Drakeford is no friend of the Union

10 Aug 2023

‘Elite overproduction’ isn’t the problem Are university degree-holders really part of an elite any more?

20 Jul 2023

Ignore the naysayers on deep-sea mining The latest bout of virtue signalling came from William Hague

04 Jul 2023

NHS worship reaches new heights with Newsnight tribute Reverence for our health service is out of line with its performance

28 Jun 2023

Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest is a gift to the Union Despite her release, the former first minister has been tarnished by SNP scandal

11 Jun 2023

Alastair Campbell’s latest brainchild: politics in primary school The former spin doctor wants to get children arguing

26 May 2023

Does Suella Braverman really want lower migration? Tory rhetoric masks a serious lack of action

15 May 2023

What is George Osborne smoking? The ex-chancellor's embrace of trivial issues shouldn't surprise us

03 May 2023

Why are home secretaries so obsessed with political correctness? Suella Braverman is the latest minister to make a familiar criticism of the police

26 Apr 2023

The boldness of Nigel Lawson is a thing of the past Today's Tories are timid and confused compared to the late chancellor

04 Apr 2023

Boris Johnson will escape into the night The former PM will remain a force in Tory politics, even if he never returns

23 Mar 2023

Fewer Brits now support Irish reunification than in 1998 Backing has fallen by over 10 points in the last two decades

20 Feb 2023

How Scotland fell out of love with Nicola Sturgeon A steady decline in the polls made her resignation inevitable

15 Feb 2023

Is the gender bill Nicola Sturgeon’s poll tax moment? Both her ratings and the SNP's have slipped into negative territory

06 Feb 2023

Now Ngozi Fulani’s charity faces the spotlight Sistah Space is being accused of unusual business practises

12 Dec 2022

IndyRef ruling is a death blow to Scottish nationalism There is no way back for the First Minister

23 Nov 2022

Jeff Bezos should be careful who he gives his money to Not all charitable donations end up in the right place

16 Nov 2022

The Tories face extinction in London Conservative inaction on housing has lost them the urban vote

14 Oct 2022

Nicola Sturgeon has run out of ideas The SNP conference was a sad affair

11 Oct 2022

Donors are undermining the Conservative Party Lord Cruddas' bid to change party rules is harmful and unedifying

31 Aug 2022

Will Truss or Sunak really defeat the woke blob? Conservative rhetoric requires conservative action

23 Aug 2022

Layla Moran and Britain’s missing reservoirs The Oxford West MP symbolises all that's wrong with planning regulations

15 Aug 2022

Tory hustings have one fatal flaw There is still a lot that we don't know about the two candidates

29 Jul 2022

How the SNP evades Westminster scrutiny The party governs behind a vast wall of bureaucracy

22 Jul 2022

Tory leadership debates were never a good idea They do not suit Britain’s parliamentary political culture

18 Jul 2022

Why hasn’t Boris gone yet? A previous generation of Tories was much more ruthless with Thatcher

06 Jul 2022

Gordon Brown is wrecking the Union Why does he want a second referendum?

28 Jun 2022

The Good Friday agreement wasn’t so good after all Yet the myth of New Labour's great Northern Ireland triumph persists

22 Jun 2022

Divided Tories won’t fix the Northern Ireland Protocol Liz Truss is taking on the EU without her party's full support

14 Jun 2022

The media is embarrassing itself over Partygate Much of the coverage has been clownishly trivial and melodramatic

25 May 2022

Why do we keep giving boomers handouts? Now supermarkets are joining the government in propping up the over-60s

23 May 2022

Sinn Fein is on the verge of a historic breakthrough Unionism has never looked in worse shape

06 May 2022

Stop pretending David Amess’ murder was caused by online abuse Why did politicians and the press push this line?

11 Apr 2022

Why is the UK shrinking its army in response to Ukraine? Ministers are invoking dubious analysis to justify cutbacks

30 Mar 2022

The Tories finally repeal a bad law The end of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act should inspire Conservatives

25 Mar 2022

Boris can’t ignore the culture wars forever The PM has a plan to deal with racial inequality — but will he go through with it?

18 Mar 2022

John Bercow was not just a bully, but a failure too His was arguably the worst Speakership in history

09 Mar 2022

Is Ukraine breaking the Geneva Convention? Publishing videos of Russian soldiers for propaganda purposes may be a breach

03 Mar 2022

For some Tory MPs, the stakes aren’t high enough There's ongoing talk of a no-fly zone and even launching missiles at Russia

28 Feb 2022

It’s time for Stormont to collapse The current crisis could give Westminster a chance to implement reform

14 Feb 2022

Captain Tom Foundation spends over £160,000 on ‘management’ The charity's records show extraordinarily high administration costs

07 Feb 2022

Don’t bother asking Mark Drakeford for help A data-sharing body with devolved governments is pure fantasy

03 Feb 2022

Why Scotland and Wales are silent on Ukraine The UK is facing major foreign policy crisis, but the first ministers aren't intervening

27 Jan 2022

Labour’s support for indy candidates in Scotland will backfire Triangulating with the SNP is a tactical disaster

10 Jan 2022

What have Scotland and Wales’ Covid rules achieved? Not a lot, suggests the latest data

04 Jan 2022

Mark Drakeford’s nonsense Covid rules are back Yet again the Welsh leader is using the virus for political purposes

23 Dec 2021

Only the Treasury can control Sturgeon and Drakeford Rishi Sunak's 'big bazooka' can ensure a unified policy response to Covid

17 Dec 2021

The Nowzad decision looks more absurd than ever Damning evidence shows that Farthing's dogs cost human lives

07 Dec 2021

Wanted: firefighters that can rescue people from fires The Fire Service's recruitment policy is no longer based on efficacy alone

29 Nov 2021

A united Ireland… within the United Kingdom? A humble Kilkenny farmer has an ambitious vision

17 Nov 2021

Soviet GP plan takes ‘Levelling Up’ to new lows Regional inequality can't be fixed with sloganeering

09 Nov 2021

Don’t let the SNP exploit COP26 The Party is trying to undermine a UK-wide project

26 Oct 2021