Simon Clarke

The center must hold – POLITICO

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Look back on the party’s history. The leaders who put the nation’s interests first and governed from the center did so with distinction: Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and, yes, Margaret Thatcher too.  When they went populist, it didn’t work. Who remembers the first Tory populist Andrew Bonar Law, who went full protectionist, upending … Read more

Can the COVID Inquiry secure Boris Johnson’s legacy? – POLITICO

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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — In a strip-lit hearing room in central London this week, 1,353 days after his first COVID lockdown, Boris Johnson finally testified to the U.K.’s inquiry into the pandemic.  The ex-prime minister’s allies believe he gave a competent account of himself to aid … Read more