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Is Rishi ready for a Red Wall rebellion?
Will the Red Wall revolt split the right?
On Monday night Tories gathered on the Terrace Pavilion at parliament for the 1922 Committee’s spring reception, to which every backbencher was invited. The crowd was small, largely made up of Rishi Sunak loyalists eating steak and chips and drinking sparkling wine. The Prime Minister chose not to give opening remarks and instead chatted to
Will the Red Wall revolt split the right?
On Monday night Tories gathered on the Terrace Pavilion at parliament for the 1922 Committee’s spring reception, to which every backbencher was invited. The crowd was small, largely made up of Rishi Sunak loyalists eating steak and chips and drinking sparkling wine. The Prime Minister chose not to give opening remarks and instead chatted to
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Sinister panto about the formation of the NHS: Nye, at the Olivier Theatre, reviewed
From the magazineA Judy Garland rendition, dancing nurses, a star lead: no spectacle is spared in Tim Price’s new play Nye, which tells the story of Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, the architect of the National Health Service. The drama opens with Bevan being cared for on an NHS ward, slipping in and out of consciousness, on the brink
The BBC seems to have come around to catcalling – in the Caribbean
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From the magazineWhy architectural modernism was championed by the rulers and the ruled
From the magazineAs dry as a ghost’s burp: Donmar Warehouse’s The Human Body reviewed
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