Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two books: Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now and How To Be A Liberal.

Latest articles

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Against the clock: But time-wasting and inadequacy seem to dominate Westminster's response.

Week in Review: A complete and utter waste of seven weeks

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Grayling: Continued success suggests political system is broken

Probation privatisation debacle: Crazed obsession with the market fails again

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May leaves No.10 for a meeting with to Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg earlier this week.

Fourth time lucky: May’s pitiful gambit

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System destruction: Mainstream political leaders need a new approach, and fast

Both parties frozen in terror as Brexit destroys the system

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The stasis agenda: Whatever happens, it'll all probably stay the same.

Week in Review: Stasis is underpriced

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A new way of doing things: Farage has replaced ideas with feelings.

The Brexit party is a post-politics entity

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Blocked: Accidental disenfranchisement at the European elections.

Disenfranchised: How EU citizens were stopped from voting in the European elections

Bureaucratic faff and institutional confusion has served to stop Europeans participating in the upcoming elections.

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Taking the blame: Doing a deal with the Tories could see Labour taking overall responsibility for Brexit

Week in Review: The idea of a Labour-Tory Brexit deal is functionally insane

The Labour MPs reacting to local election results by calling for a Brexit deal seem to have completely lost their mind.

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Send help: The European election campaigns offer little respite from he gloom

Week in Review: An equal opportunities disaster zone

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Farage has come out strong in the campaign but he faces an uphill battle getting his vote out.

Remainers are making a pig’s ear of the European elections

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Fatigue: Most commentators and politicians have reached the end of their tether.

Week in Review: The frazzlfication ends now. For a little bit.

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Macron arrives at the EU summit yesterday. His efforts blocked a longer extension.

Halloween extension: Remainers now have the chance to turn this thing around

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May announces another Article 50 extension earlier this week.

Week in Review: Theresa May’s only consistency is failure

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Theresa May leans forward during PMQs. She is reluctantly allowing domestic preparation to start for European elections.

The Brexiters’ rearguard defence against Article 50 extension has fallen apart

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A journalist watches the prime minister's statement on a mobile phone this afternoon

No.10 statement: Look out for Theresa May’s no-deal trap

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Nick Boles at the end of today;s debate, as he announced he could "no longer sit for this party".

Circular firing squad: Puritanism sees Remainers and Soft Brexiters destroy each other

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May urges the Commons to back hr plan for a third time this afternoon.

Brexit Day is cancelled: May’s final deception falls to pieces

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Indicative Votes: Historic new system throws Brexit into turmoil

Indicative votes: A People’s Vote just became much more likely

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May leaves parliament after telling her MPs she will not remain in post for the next phase of Brexit negotiations this evening

The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May’s resignation

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