Grasp the nettle
Good morning from Liverpool, where I’ve just come off GB News (here). This is Andy Burnham’s first conference as prime minister and he opened…
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Liberal Democrat Conference 2026: Local success vs national distress
Business Day at Lib Dem Conference 2026 was a cheery affair: surprisingly so, given the tension within the party over the direction of its…
The autumn trap for Burnham | Dispatch from New York
Good morning from Manhattan, where the rain has set in ahead of the UN General Assembly. If Downing Street gets its way over the…
Cambridge Tech Week: Bringing optimism back to the tech debate
The timing couldn’t have been better for our team to attend Cambridge Tech Week. The week was set to the backdrop of Anthropic researcher…
The Two Cities lowdown | Friday, 18 September 2026
Welcome back. The Two Cities Lowdown is Lowick Hedry’s weekly read on the City of Westminster and the City of London, written by the…
Game on
Labour’s advantage over Reform is down to 2.3 points. Election Maps UK’s poll-of-polls has Labour on 26.1%, Reform on 23.8%, the Conservatives a distant…
Sunday Polling Update – Labour lead narrows
Labour’s lead has narrowed to 2.3 points, and the seat model now points to a hung parliament. This week’s poll of polls, compiled by…
The Two Cities lowdown
The Two Cities Lowdown is Lowick Hedry’s weekly read on the City of Westminster and the City of London, written by the team that…
The six words that mattered in Healey’s growth speech
John Healey’s first big growth speech as chancellor contained one sentence that will outlast the rest of it. The rest was competent. The sentence…