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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
