John Rentoul

John Rentoul: Clegg: A triumph of anti-politics

'Nice Nick' did well in the leaders' debate, but what counts most is the gap between the two biggest parties

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John Rentoul: The fallacy that continues to dog Project Cameron

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

This was the flying pig manifesto, describing a Britain that will never be

John Rentoul: Cameron is cheeky, but right

Sunday, 11 April 2010

The Conservative leader's bid for 'Guardian' reader support on public sector differentials is smart

John Rentoul: Tory policies contradict their own warnings

Sunday, 11 April 2010

A long time ago in an economy far, far away, a Great Leader with a reputation as an Iron Chancellor had a Golden Rule. It said that the government should balance its books, borrowing prudently when needed and paying it back in the good times. But then, in September 2008, Lehman Brothers went bust. The economy shrank; tax revenues dried up; banks were nationalised. Rather suddenly, government borrowing was forecast to go up from about 2.5 per cent of national income to 12.5 per cent – a level that would be regarded in peacetime as disastrous, as Jon Moulton points out.

John Rentoul: Second thoughts on foreign workers

Friday, 9 April 2010

I commented yesterday on the Daily Mail's front-page story, ripped off from Fraser Nelson (right) at Coffee House, that 98.5 per cent of net new jobs since 1997 had been taken by foreign-born workers.

I'll put a wager on a Tory victory, despite all the known unknowns

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

John Rentoul: Over-hyped and over-analysed, I bet the televised debates don't shift many votes.

John Rentoul: Dave has always been a good finisher

Sunday, 28 March 2010

The Conservative Party is convulsed by doubts about its leader as it sees the prize slipping away

John Rentoul: For Cable as chancellor, vote Labour

Sunday, 21 March 2010

The clunky mechanism of a hung parliament means that the Lib Dems need Brown to do well

John Rentoul: Nick Clegg's nightmare

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Today's YouGov poll for The Sun, showing a Conservative lead of just four percentage points, raises one of the most intriguing and specialised sub-questions of the great hung parliament dilemma.

Warning – Women are people too

Sunday, 14 March 2010

John Rentoul: Party leaders are mistaken if they think that half the electorate is only concerned with family-friendly issues.

John Rentoul: Clegg and the banks

Thursday, 11 March 2010

I seem to have confused everyone by taking issue with Nick Clegg's seeing a parallel between the conduct of the banks today and that of the trade unions before the 1980s reforms.

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