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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"Moving your immigration system offshore has been a favoured tactic of western governments trying to placate public anger over the issue"

Australian refugee abuse shows what happens when you offshore your decency

News

"Despite the efforts of some to confuse the issue, 'membership of' the single market is entirely different to 'access to' it,"

IFS crushes Brexit myth: There is no ‘access’ to the single market

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Corbyn: Principled new politics or same old evasion?

Corbyn’s Article 50 moment shows he’s just like any politician

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"It's impossible to believe that the Home Office only locks up pregnant women in detention centres in exceptional circumstance"

Home Office forced to reveal pregnant women kept in immigration detention centres

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"The Ukip leadership election is underway, although we still don't really know how many people are in it"

Know your Ukip leadership candidate

*Blog

"The leadership front-runner failed to get his application in before yesterday's midday deadline"

Ukip’s cack-handed leadership race tells you everything about its politics

*Blogs

Government backtracks on previous pledge to end child detention

Broken pledge: Children to be sent back to immigration detention

Government backtracks on previous pledge to end child detention

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"Maggie rose from out the grave, sought out a host body in the form of the new prime minister"

May’s first PMQs and she wipes the floor with Corbyn

May destroyed Corbyn and did so with an eery likeness to Thatcher

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"Brexit wasn't the end. It is the furnace in which the new politics will be made"

A new politics forms in the furnace of Brexit

News

A new report suggests the economic effect of Brexit could be so harsh that net migration to the UK will fall by 58% next year

Brexit will reduce immigration – by damaging the economy

*Blog

"As May said when she won the leadership, she needs to show that she can make a success of Brexit"

Everything you need to know about Theresa May’s Brexit nightmare in five minutes

*Blogs

"Cameron staked it all on a grubby, short-sighted, self-interested political game to protect him from his own backbenchers"

Cameron’s legacy: Beneath the spin, there was nothing

*Blog

"Angela Eagle is running against Corbyn, but as what? An ideas-free zone."

Corbyn’s critics are as inept as he is

*Blog

"Leadsom was the armageddon candidate"

Leadsom steps down: Britain has dodged a bullet

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"The findings against him in the Chilcot report are damning"

Chilcot: Blair’s reputation will never recover

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"It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed evidence and assessments"

Damning Chilcot report vindicates critics of Iraq war

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"It's unsurprising that a man whose entire career is defined by pitting people against each other should step down laying the ground for further division into the future"

Nigel Farage: A political career defined by division and hate

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"May has the ability to go all the way. And that should make us very, very afraid"

Theresa May: Something wicked this way comes

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"Gove's decision to stand comes after multiple occasions in which he insisted he never would"

All the times Michael Gove said he didn’t want to be prime minister

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