Simon Clarke
Simon Clarke is the Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. He served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in Liz Truss’s Government, and before that as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Boris Johnson
How did it all go so wrong for Liz Truss?
The former prime minister was fundamentally right in her diagnosis of the situation at home and abroad and what should be done about it
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past