Jonathan Lis

Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator.

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The real lesson of the Article 16 row

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Peter Pan lifestyle? 'Being a child isn't a bad thing. But you wouldn’t want to be led by one.'

Johnson: The boy king who can’t grow up

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Banned: New restriction enforces the Rule of Six, but ministers seem confused about what it entails.

Crimes against mingling: Government covid response reaches new height of absurdity

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Forget about masks: the real covid culture war has only just begun

Forget about masks: the real covid culture war has only just begun

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This week the prime minister perhaps reached a new low when he observed that "too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures in the way that they could have"

Week in Review: When lies and incompetence collide

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The latest round of negotiation ended prematurely yesterday, with EU negotiatior Michel Barnier noting the lack of progress

Week in Review: Brexit finally begins

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Boris Johnson and Donald Trump: What these men cannot control must simply disappear.

Johnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist

You can engineer any defiance of reality if you simply believe hard enough. What these men cannot control must simply disappear.

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Protesters throw a statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest last weekend.

Colston row: It’s about discussing history, not rewriting it

History, in all its glory and poison, is going nowhere, no matter how many debates we have about Edward Colston, Cecil Rhodes or William Gladstone.

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Starmer: Sudden poll movement puts Labour leader in much better position.

Labour now stands a real chance of winning the next election

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Closing down criticism: No.10's campaign to silence the outrage over covid

Closing down criticism: No.10’s campaign to silence the outrage over covid

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A woman is told to go home by a police officer on Primrose Hill in London last weekend.

Stop shaming: This crisis calls for generosity, not denunciation

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Brexit & coronavirus: This is no time for ideology

Brexit & coronavirus: This is no time for ideology

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Hope truly is the most dangerous of the gateway drugs, and Remainers have spent two years getting high on their own supply.

2019 was the year we lost hope – but it’s still all we have

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MPs voted 358 to 234 in favour of the Brexit bill (photo: Press Association)

Brexit bill passing heralds game of winner takes all

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The Tory racism problem is at least as severe as Labour's.

The Tory racism problem is as severe as Labour’s

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Boris Johnson: Few options left and running out of time.

An NI-only backstop is Johnson’s only option – and it still won’t save him

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Amber Rudd leaves Boris Johnson's first Cabinet meeting beside Esther McVey.

Jo Johnson and Amber Rudd U-turns signal a broader decline in political principles

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Deja-vu Brexit: It's all just a little bit of history repeating.

Deja-vu Brexit: The Tory leadership race is a grotesque rerun of the 2016 campaign

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The prospect of Boris Johnson in Downing Street is making some people uneasy

Week in Review: Something terrible is about to happen and we are powerless to stop it

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