BIZARRE: 3 - What They Never Told You

Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs

The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2023

Younger voters will never back ‘anti-EU and populist’ Tories, ex-cabinet ministers warn

Michael Heseltine says Brexit will be ’high on the agenda’ if Liz Truss loses general election

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2022

Truss picked ‘cronies off backbenches’ for cabinet, says Heseltine

Former Tory ‘big beast’ says PM needs to ‘appoint ministers who know what the heck they’re doing’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

Ken Clarke: ‘The idea that tax cuts will automatically produce growth is nonsense’

The veteran Tory, who stood three times to lead his party, on the cost of living crisis, today’s political culture and the best PM we never had

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us

If she becomes Tory leader she will have to weigh up whether voters are expecting a complete clear-out or more of the same

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Welcome to Johnsonism without Johnson

If nothing else, this leadership contest is proving the ‘Boris Johnson as a Brexity Hezza’ [Michael Heseltine] motif was largely correct, even if the glaring internal contradiction meant it would struggle to produce a coherent policy platform.

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2022

What links Jack Grealish to Michael Heseltine and David Mellor?

We follow footballing fashion icons down the rabbit hole to find strange sartorial connections with former Tory ministers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2022

Tories need to lose next election to ‘heal divisions’, Michael Heseltine says

’There is the elephant in the room, which is Brexit. And Brexit is a disaster‘

The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2022

Boris Johnson’s spineless cabinet of mediocrities are too feeble to wield the dagger

By failing to finish off a broken leader, they are prolonging their party’s agonies with grim consequences for the country

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022

Even the Murdoch press is now waking up to the truth: Brexit was an act of self-harm

When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth, says former Conservative deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2022