Tom McTague

Tom McTague is UnHerd's Political Editor. He is the author of Betting The House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election.

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Could Elon Musk make Farage king?

19 Dec 2024

The politicians lying about Syria

16 Dec 2024

Trump’s new world order

10 Dec 2024

Is Keir Starmer really shifting Right on immigration? The PM is just challenging the old Blairite consensus on the movement of people

06 Dec 2024

Keir Starmer has no dream

05 Dec 2024

Could Tony Blair be Starmer’s gateway to Elon Musk? Donald Trump's efficiency tsar is a diplomatic challenge for Labour

02 Dec 2024

Ireland’s liberal fantasy

29 Nov 2024

The Labour Party was better for John Prescott Today's technocrats are less authentic and less political

21 Nov 2024

Jeremy Clarkson: populist tribune

20 Nov 2024

Is Trump a blessing for Starmer?

14 Nov 2024

The tragedy of Gary Lineker Match of the Day now risks sinking into obscurity

12 Nov 2024

Welcome back to Trumpland

08 Nov 2024

Kemi Badenoch’s New Toryism

02 Nov 2024

Trump senses British weakness

24 Oct 2024

In defence of the Little Englander

20 Oct 2024

Starmer can’t keep Britain afloat

15 Oct 2024

The Tory counter-revolution has begun

10 Oct 2024

Who killed Sue Gray?

07 Oct 2024

The historic naivety of Keir Starmer’s Chagos decision His excessive legalism is shining through once again

03 Oct 2024

How Cleverlymania took over the Tories James Cleverly is now the dark horse in the leadership race

02 Oct 2024

The Tory contender Labour fears

30 Sep 2024

Why Lebanon can’t be saved

27 Sep 2024

Keir Starmer is suppressing his conservative side His project is an ongoing battle between provincial and metropolitan values

24 Sep 2024

Sue Gray’s deadly grip on Starmer

21 Sep 2024

Inside Starmer’s feuding No. 10

14 Sep 2024

Starmer has revealed his weakness over Israel

05 Sep 2024

Tony Blair gives up on ‘the end of history’ The former PM has reconsidered his prior embrace of liberal idealism

03 Sep 2024

Morgan McSweeney’s plan for the far-Right

10 Aug 2024

Starmer needs the strength of Thatcher

07 Aug 2024

Rachel Reeves is turning into George Osborne Labour is doing little to change the economic status quo

30 Jul 2024

Ohio is the battleground for America’s future

29 Jul 2024

What Roger Scruton can teach Starmer

17 Jul 2024

How Starmer slaughtered the Tories

05 Jul 2024

In Starmerland, the ladies are not for turning

29 Jun 2024

How Britain abandoned Scotland

22 Jun 2024

Keir Starmer’s class neurosis

15 Jun 2024

The nationalist Right has created a pan-European identity Ironically, it is the formerly Eurosceptic parties that have forged a group image

11 Jun 2024

Farage’s army is on the march

08 Jun 2024

Nigel Farage could now lead the Tories The new Reform leader could attempt a hostile takeover after the next election

03 Jun 2024

Jeremy Clarkson is right about national farm service British agriculture is under threat from foreign imports

29 May 2024

What Starmer can learn from George Smiley

25 May 2024

For the Tories, things can only get worse

23 May 2024

The McSweeney Project

11 May 2024

After Blackpool, who will save Rishi Sunak? Labour managed a swing of 11,000 to win yesterday's by-election

03 May 2024

Tony Blair: autocracies are fine with ‘smart’ leaders The former PM's attitude towards democracy has shifted

21 Apr 2024

The village that made Nigel Farage

28 Mar 2024

David Cameron’s vanity trip

23 Mar 2024

Leo Varadkar’s ruthless pursuit of power

21 Mar 2024

Rachel Reeves has bought into the wrong Thatcher myth Labour should learn from the Iron Lady's politics, not her economics

19 Mar 2024

Why Rishi Sunak needs Lee Anderson Reform's new MP represents a vanishing 2019 voter coalition

12 Mar 2024

Welcome to stagnation nation

07 Mar 2024

The case for scrapping the Budget This whole charade is becoming more and more unreal each year

06 Mar 2024

The Machiavelli of Meta

26 Feb 2024

Ceasefire vote chaos deepens Labour divisions Keir Starmer is losing control over his party's foreign policy

22 Feb 2024

By-election results show the power of Reform It's 1997 all over again — but with a twist

16 Feb 2024

Northern Ireland’s anguish isn’t over

31 Jan 2024

Can we really trust Tony Blair with NHS data? The former PM wants to sell health records to boost research

26 Jan 2024

Rishi Sunak called his opponents’ bluff on Rwanda — and won The Prime Minister has seen off the Tory rebels, but doubts remain

18 Jan 2024

Labour is stalked by treachery

17 Jan 2024

Should Britain lead the war in Yemen?

13 Jan 2024

Yemen is a war worth fighting Britain and America are launching a new foreign policy era

12 Jan 2024

The Tories deserve the Peter Bone circus The disgraced MP's girlfriend is standing in Wellingborough

08 Jan 2024

The year Toryism failed Britain

01 Jan 2024

The political power of Deano

20 Dec 2023

The Tory landslide was a lifetime ago Four years on, the party has forgotten what it was elected to do

12 Dec 2023

A small boats election is Rishi Sunak’s best chance Immigration is the only issue where the Tories and Labour truly differ

07 Dec 2023

Nigel Farage’s plan for power

02 Dec 2023

Tony Blair Institute annual turnover up by $40 million Latest accounts show that the organisation has enjoyed a bumper year

28 Nov 2023

The Autumn Statement in four words: an election is coming Rishi Sunak is laying the groundwork for a spring vote

22 Nov 2023

How losers write history

18 Nov 2023

Suellaism is here to stay

14 Nov 2023

Even the King can’t rescue Rishi Sunak The PM is pursuing pet issues rather than solving national problems

07 Nov 2023

Labour still has an Israel problem

02 Nov 2023

Rishi Sunak’s annus horribilis

25 Oct 2023

Israel is trapped by Western guilt

20 Oct 2023

Starmer’s hollow vision for Britain

12 Oct 2023

Jamie Carragher: My warning to Starmer

11 Oct 2023

Rishi Sunak’s pointless revolution

05 Oct 2023

The white heat of Britain’s decline

28 Sep 2023

What does Angela Rayner really want?

14 Sep 2023

Will Starmer be Britain’s Merkel?

06 Sep 2023

Why we need Oliver Anthony

02 Sep 2023

Inside Tony Blair Inc.

07 Aug 2023

The Saudi football takeover is a taste of our own medicine European clubs are angered by a trend they started themselves

26 Jul 2023

Keir Starmer is no Blair

21 Jul 2023

Tony Blair preaches to his centrist disciples The former PM's summit was eagerly attended, but how radical are his ideas?

18 Jul 2023

Farewell Mark Rutte, Europe’s last centrist dad The Dutch PM's brand of modern, moderate conservatism is no more

10 Jul 2023

Why Britain can’t control inflation

27 Jun 2023

Boris Johnson’s theatre of the absurd

12 Jun 2023

Britain can thrive as a vassal state

08 Jun 2023

Keir Starmer the Conservative

25 May 2023

Don’t write off the DUP just yet Northern Ireland's elections were not a death knell for unionism

23 May 2023

Do national conservatives trust the people?

17 May 2023

Britain needs a Napoleon

04 May 2023

The political power of Deano

21 Apr 2023

Joe Biden’s Irish fantasy

13 Apr 2023

Ireland will always be divided

10 Apr 2023

America’s desperate dysfunction

01 Apr 2023

Humza Yousaf is good news for the Union The new SNP leader is an example of the UK's strength

27 Mar 2023