Journalist · Commentator · Political Editor, The Spectator
The Long View — fifty years watching Britain govern itself
Leading the Conservatives in opposition is almost the hardest job in politics. Bruce Anderson on Kemi Badenoch's strategy of patience, her mastery of Sir Stumbler, the harder test of Andy Burnham, and the one battleground that decides everything: the economy.
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Bruce Anderson was born in Orkney in 1949 and read History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was political editor of The Spectator, wrote for the Daily Mail and The Independent, and continues to write the Spectator's Drink column.
This site is his attempt to do what the news cycle cannot: explain why things happened, and what they mean for where we are now.
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