Tom Harris

Tom Harris

Tom Harris is a former Labour MP and sometime spinner who survived the heights and depths of the Blair-Brown era. After serving as a minister in the Department for Transport he led the Scottish Brexit campaign and founded his own lobbying company, Third Avenue Public Affairs. He now delivers his independent, no-nonsense insight every weekday in the Telegraph. His latest book, 'Ten Years in the Death of the Labour Party', is available from Biteback.

The SNP’s ceasefire posturing is a moral scandal

A fatuous and pointless exercise is being carried out at the Scottish Parliament, distracting from the ruling party's appalling record

Tom Harris 21 Nov 2023, 1:30pm

Strip the flailing SNP of control of the NHS

Scotland deserves better than this failed devolution experiment

Tom Harris 20 Nov 2023, 2:03pm
To stop the boats, Britain must take back control (again)

We have an obligation to explore each and every domestic route to halting illegal migration

Tom Harris 17 Nov 2023, 12:29pm
The Brexit wars are back – and this time it really is about immigration

Remember the performative outrage, the invective

Tom Harris 16 Nov 2023, 2:02pm

The Supreme Court has saved Starmer’s bacon – and condemned Sunak to misery

It's Sunak’s worst day since yesterday

Tom Harris 15 Nov 2023, 12:45pm
The SNP’s fantasy of a green independence is collapsing around its ears

The dream of a renewables boom is over

Tom Harris 14 Nov 2023, 1:29pm
What does this mean for Labour?

David Cameron's return to government exposes the inexperience of the shadow cabinet

Tom Harris 13 Nov 2023, 12:58pm
The stain of Corbyn’s Labour has not been eradicated

Too many in the party are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Hamas

Tom Harris 9 Nov 2023, 12:06pm
Humza Yousaf has betrayed a sacred day of remembrance for many Scots

Would the plight of unhappy Gazans be made any worse by the absence of Palestinian flags on the streets of London for a couple of days?

Tom Harris 8 Nov 2023, 12:57pm
Labour is riven with religious divisions

We are approaching a tipping point in British politics, one where Muslims may no longer feel the party represents them

Tom Harris 6 Nov 2023, 12:51pm

The SNP socialist housing policy has descended into chaos – inevitably

Hell-bent on independence, the party rolls out one ill-conceived idea after another

Tom Harris 4 Nov 2023, 6:00am
Never surrender Remembrance weekend to Islamist sympathisers

Our leaders are so out of touch that they imagine this conflict between British values and Islamism can be resolved without harsh words

Tom Harris 3 Nov 2023, 12:26pm
St Nicola’s Covid arrogance has come back to bite

The “open, transparent and accountable” SNP has done a far worse job in meeting its own ideals than Tory adversaries in Westminster

Tom Harris 2 Nov 2023, 1:28pm
Labour can’t hide from its own complicity in imposing lockdown

Public inquiries are devalued when they are used by political parties to seek advantage, especially at this point in the electoral cycle

Tom Harris 1 Nov 2023, 2:04pm
Starmer's Israel-Hamas problem won't go away

The Labour leader has ignored certain figures in his party and rejected the notion of a ceasefire – but will it last?

Tom Harris 31 Oct 2023, 1:40pm
Defections, by-election defeats, coalition squabbles – yet things could get still worse for the SNP

Humza Yousaf may come to look on the past weeks with fondness. The prospects for the Scottish Government are not good

Tom Harris 30 Oct 2023, 4:10pm
Sadiq Khan shames London with his call for an Israeli ceasefire

This is a politician who, as a Labour MP, nominated none other than Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2015

Tom Harris 27 Oct 2023, 12:00pm
Starmer’s Israel critics should leave the Labour Party

Sir Keir would have absolutely nothing to lose if he offered such a challenge. But it takes guts, and we are about to see what he's made of

Tom Harris 26 Oct 2023, 4:46pm
Labour MPs are terrified of telling the truth about Hamas

Many local parties have many Muslim members who might be persuaded to vote against an incumbent MP who expresses solidarity with Israel

Tom Harris 24 Oct 2023, 11:52am
The Tories are headed for a 1997-style wipeout

For the Conservatives, the word 'safe seat' is beginning to lose its meaning

Tom Harris 20 Oct 2023, 7:44am
Today was to be the day of Sturgeon’s second referendum – now the SNP dream is crushed

From a sluggish economy to record-breaking drug addiction, Scotland has problems – the devolved government has no more excuses

Tom Harris 19 Oct 2023, 2:09pm
The SNP is doomed. Loading debt onto Scotland won’t change that – but could trash the economy

The First Minister is constructing a financial mess which his likely Labour successor will have to sort out

Tom Harris 18 Oct 2023, 1:19pm