Category: Dorset Politics

Students get it – why don’t our leaders?

There’s only one thing worse than being talked about, and that’s not being talked about. Rachel Reeves’ budget speech inclusion of a puerile dig...

Is this the beginning of the end for Labour and Reeves?

Under the last Conservative government, the UK’s national debt went from £1.2 trillion in 2010 to £2.7 trillion in 2024. The Tories ran a...

A budget that left West Dorset colder

Last week saw Rachel Reeves make her Budget announcement. It was a botched opportunity to address some of the fundamentals and raise money through...

The Budget that flicked a V

MP Simon Hoare blasts the Chancellor’s Budget as a rural-punishing exercise in political survival – built on deception, not duty Rachel Reeves excelled herself with...

Have we earned what they gave us?

Thomas Gargrave Reform UK Dorset “If I should die, think only this of me:That there’s some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.”More than...

Record Gambling Ad Spend Puts Reeves Under Pressure Before Budget

Just when Rachel Reeves thought she had enough on her plate, a fresh set of figures has landed on her desk that's got Westminster...

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Braced for foaling season

As the due dates passed, everyone at The Glanvilles Stud was on tenterhooks for the delivery of the first foal, says Lucy Procter January saw...

The soft paws of spring

Pussy willow catkins are among late winter’s most generous and quietly important natural wonders, says Jane Adams When did you last stop to look closely...

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