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Badenoch: 'no chance' of sharing power with Reform

She tells The Times CEO summit that the Tories will stand as the 'Stop Labour and stop Reform' party. Which rules out any kind of post-election…

Jun 18 • Fraser Nelson

Recent posts

Britain’s sickness crisis isn’t about immigration

I tested a common theory: that the places struggling most with worklessness, poor health and welfare dependency are those most transformed by migration.

Jun 17 • Fraser Nelson

The defence revolt is about more than military spending. It is a rebellion against a politics that refuses to make hard choices

Jun 12 • Fraser Nelson

JD Vance's Britain doesn't exist

The problem is not just the exploitation of a tragedy — it is the fictional picture of Britain that American populists increasingly rely upon.

Jun 5 • Fraser Nelson

What Henry Nowak's murder says about the kirpan

Prof. Jagbir Jhutti-Johal about the kirpan, the faith, the law and the future

May 31 • Fraser Nelson

The truth about Lucy Connolly's sentence

Her judge was following a flowchart the Tories built, to the letter.

May 29 • Fraser Nelson

The secret history of medical progress

The era of preventative medicine is ready. Are we?

May 26 • Fraser Nelson

Basic migration falls to the tens of thousands

The success that dare not speak is name

May 21 • Fraser Nelson

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JD Vance's Britain doesn't exist

Jun 5 • Fraser Nelson

Isabel Hardman - and the blend that changed politics

May 29, 2025 • Fraser Nelson

How Jews and Christians came to Muslims' defence

Mar 22 • Fraser Nelson

The Abba insurgency: art and science

May 18, 2025 • Fraser Nelson

The twilight of the centre-right

Oct 28, 2025 • Andrew Neil

Fraser Nelson's notebook

Observations, out-takes and my data library