May 20, 2013

Tories misunderstand the last election

David Cameron ©Getty

Cameron’s estrangement from his party began with the failure of 2010

Flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. ©Bloomberg May 13, 2013

The Tories have become ungovernable

Drama is giving way to farce. The eurosceptic demands are now plain odd

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader, Nigel Farage enjoys a celebratory pint of beer in a pub in central London ©EPA May 6, 2013

It would be folly for Cameron to ape Ukip

This is already an exceptionally conservative government

May 3, 2013

Ukip’s win will make all parties nervous

Role of Nigel Farage’s party is still more psychological than electoral

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at a business seminar in Mumbai ©AFP Apr 29, 2013

Growth will not decide the next election

A strong economy at the next UK election could harm the Conservatives

Apr 24, 2013

Myths surround the austerity chancellor

Half-truths and outdated certainties abound about the UK’s second most powerful person

File photo dated 14/03/13 of Labour leader Ed Miliband who has urged MPs to "stand up for the victims" of press abuse by enshrining a new press regulator in law in a crunch Commons vote. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Sunday March 17, 2013. "Monday is the day that politics has got to do the duty by the victims and has got to stand up for the victims," he told The Observer. "I think it is an important moment because we have had decades of failing to ensure that we have a system of press complaints and redress which means that ordinary people aren't left at the whim of a sometimes abusive press." Rival proposals for a new system of newspaper self-regulation will face judgment tomorrow in a high-stakes battle over the response to the phone-hacking scandal. See PA story POLITICS Leveson. P ©PA Apr 22, 2013

Labour’s clarity may be its undoing

Miliband is not guilty of nebulousness – he is an astonishingly clear politician

February 1979: British Conservative leader, Margaret Thatcher, visits the London stock exchange ©Getty Apr 15, 2013

Conservatives should be pro-market, not pro-business

It was not the size of the state that Thatcher rolled back but its reach into the economy

©Jonathan McHugh Apr 12, 2013

North and south are worlds apart

Britain’s politicians must be both ambitious and realistic in response

J. McHugh illustration ©J. McHugh Apr 11, 2013

History is leaving welfare state behind

British parties that take comfort in tired attitudes will be dumped

Apr 8, 2013

The Iron Lady towers over modern Britain

Thatcher’s legacy is not order but freedom

Apr 1, 2013

Tories ignore signs in rush for the exit

The party is forgetting the qualities that could ensure victory

Mar 25, 2013

Strange death of a more liberal Britain

The country is gripped by a feeling that it became almost sinfully slack

Mar 20, 2013

Osborne’s play for the strivers

The chancellor had to revive his party’s winning tradition as the friend of the aspirational classes

Mar 18, 2013

Press battle thaws Labour-Lib Dem frost

This could in future be seen as the dawn of a new coalition

Mar 11, 2013

Better make this Budget a boring one

Beige would respect that there is no magic bullet for growth

Mar 6, 2013

Soccer fans warm to Ruhr romantics

Borussia Dortmund is a club in stark contrast to billionaire-owned rivals in European football

Mar 4, 2013

Cameron condemned to rightward lurches

The moment to push root-and-branch modernisation has gone, writes Janan Ganesh

Feb 25, 2013

Voters expect Osborne to stay his course

The British are busy hunkering down for years of squeezed living standards

Feb 4, 2013

Cameron must stop appeasing his party

The UK leader sees same-sex marriage as a way to broaden Tory appeal

ABOUT JANAN

Janan Ganesh Janan Ganesh is political columnist for the FT. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two.

He appears regularly on TV and radio, including a weekly slot on BBC1's Sunday Politics. He is also the author of a biography of George Osborne, the UK chancellor.

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