Patrick Maguire
Chief political commentator, The Times
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- I spent today with Nigel Farage and watched Robert Jenrick’s rumoured defection become reality in the space of minutes, listening to a phone call from my vantage point in the back seat of a people carrier. Here’s how it happened. www.thetimes.com/article/12d3...
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- 99 per cent of analysis I’m reading about Zahawi is way too involved. To the extent people pay attention to this at all, it will be to note that Reform are doing well and hear someone else say Farage will/can be PM. Also: are Reform the same old Tories or something new and scary?
- I've gone completely insane. New Substack on – variously – Harry Enfield, Alan Bleasdale, Walter Greenwood, Dennis Potter, Jimmy Reid and Damian McBride. maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/in-defence...
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- New Substack: why Labour Together's membership survey matters. And how to define "helpful" maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
- I've written a Substack about what I've been reading and writing recently – on the voters who make populism happen, and why Labour isn't speaking to them. maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/the-voters...
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- New on my similarly new Substack: why Keir Starmer needs fat men around him, the person actually doing a good job inside No 10, and the best books on Brownism substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Column: not many people appreciate just how many Brownites there are at the top of this Labour government. But are they the right ones for a PM with his back to the wall? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
- I've joined Substack to share more thoughts on my reading, writing and thoughts on the history that helps explain our political moment. Subscribe here, if you like. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- Nigel Farage is leading Labour round in circles www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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- Morgan McSweeney: - broke contact with “dismissive” Mandelson on Tuesday - resolved he should be sacked on after PMQs on Wednesday - then went to Brussels that evening - by the time he returned, his longtime friend and mentor was gone Full story in today’s Times: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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- Peter Mandelson and Keir Starmer: a sorry story that begins and ends with the incoherence of the prime minister’s political project www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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- Column: Labour should beware Mums for Reform www.thetimes.com/article/160a...
- EXC: Ministers and civil servants are deliberately misleading the public with “false” and “unfounded” briefings about the Hillsborough Law, Andy Burnham tells The Times KC who wrote draft bill says officials are seeking to “subvert and destroy the entire process” www.thetimes.com/article/a220...
- Is Keir Starmer planning a progressive pivot? He made a class-conscious speech to cabinet last week. But the justice secretary asked whether Labour could really claim to represent the working class... ...and then his policy chief sketched out a tougher direction of travel.
- Column in this morning's Times: - How four MPs ended up without the Labour whip – and why No 10 wanted more - Shabana tells Keir: no point having a working class cabinet the working class hate - Liz Lloyd tells cabinet: social cohesion under threat due to migration www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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- Tomorrow’s Times column: - The key segments of the electorate in No 10’s new poll of trust in government - Farage planning a ‘Robin Hood’ intervention on the cost of living next Monday - What Orban’s aides have told Reform on welfare - Who’s debating a wealth tax? www.thetimes.com/article/eed0...
- EXC: Bank of England independence should be reviewed, say Reform www.thetimes.com/article/6f49...
- What Southport Pier tells you about the new politics of this Labour government www.thetimes.com/article/df83...
- So it turns out almost everyone was completely wrong in their analysis of Reform over the past 48 hours. So many nonsense assertions made without any evidence, largely because people can't, won't or don't want to understand that this isn't just Ukip again.
- Column: Reform have got this far on vibes alone and consciously reject SW1 convention. But Yusuf's resignation shows the limits of doing it differently. No wonder some close to Farage are talking about a new team... after tonight, they'll need one. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
- Misread to add Yusuf to long list of people who have fallen out with Farage. The real problem for Reform is that even in a party designed with zero meaningful provision for internal democracy, his chosen enforcer was incapable of running it without alienating everyone else.
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- In this Saturday’s Times I interview Gary Lubner, Labour’s biggest donor, about politics, philanthropy, and the PM www.thetimes.com/article/6cda...
- Column in today's Times: how and why Rachel Reeves will use the spending review not just to cut, but to rewrite the Treasury's investment rules to build outside of London www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
