James Cleverly

The question that sticks in my mind about the Jason Arday affair is this: Was Cambridge University credulous or complicit? Was this “Being There” or “The Hudsucker Proxy”?

Andy Burnham has finally done what the Conservatives said he should do. Make sure that no rapists, paedophiles or violent sexual criminals are released early. He made this decision at the last min...

18,500 words. That is the length of the Equality Impact Assessment a developer had to produce just to get planning permission for some offices and a data centre in Tower Hamlets. This is why cos...

Why no mention of the Church’s role in the abolitionist movement? Speaking only of the Church’s failures but not its virtues reflects the poor communication of British history. Why are we surpri...

As I’ve said before, the Labour Party is at heart deeply misogynistic. It doesn’t believe that a woman can succeed without a man making way for her. https://t.co/PaohrO3ypQ

Strong @Conservatives result in Essex.

Burnham has devotion to faux-devolution!

This is the problem with Burham’s faux-devolution. He doesn’t want to give local leaders the power to do things differently. He wants them to be local avatars, implementing his agenda but with a r...

This is the problem with Burham’s faux-devotion. He doesn’t want to give local leaders the power to do things differently. He wants them to be local avatars, implementing his agenda but with a reg...

We are seeing a pattern with Burnham style devolution. Money from central government, to do things defined by central government. Call me old fashioned, but I remember when we used to call that ...

A decade of Labour leadership has been a disaster for London. Sadiq Khan has been asleep at the wheel, and when London suffers, the UK suffers. Burnham’s anti-London agenda will hurt, not help, ...

1,000 homes a day. That is what Labour need to build to hit their target. They are only building about half of that number, 547 a week. A change of Prime Minister and bringing back Angela Rayner ...

This is Sadiq Khan's legacy. Families priced out of the city they grew up in. London needs homes, more small businesses, and a thriving hospitality sector. London needs less red tape and lower ta...

Andy Burnham is not serious about solving the housing crisis. Getting homes built means cutting red tape, cutting costs and backing the builders. Only the Conservatives have a plan to do that. ht...

Stamp duty is a tax on aspiration. It locks first time buyers out. It freezes the market. Only the Conservatives will scrap it.

Floating an idea like this is good for generating headlines. But Anyone who is just about to buy a house (and pay stamp duty) now has a massive incentive not to do so. Further depressing a slug...

A very moving article about my friend James Brokenshire: https://t.co/43ifQfO6sU

2 weeks ago, I demanded the then Deputy Prime Minister to apologise to the victims of the rapists and paedophiles he was planning to release early. He refused. The pressure worked. But it should ...

@tomhfh @jsncwn Look at the early weeks of Starmer’s popularity graph, and what happened next. A flurry of announcements, wall to wall coverage, and no parliamentary scrutiny is the perfect envir...

Since 2020, the cost of building a new home has risen by £76,000. That £76,000 is paid by first time buyers. Paid by people trying to move up in life. No wonder the housing market is stagnating. ...