Revealed: Labour’s tactics to deal with Truss
Keir Starmer tonight told the weekly parliamentary Labour party meeting that ‘we will never underestimate Liz Truss’. The Labour leader…
Priti Patel resigns. Will she cause trouble for Liz Truss?
Priti Patel has announced she is standing down as Home Secretary and returning to the backbenches ahead of an expected…
Can Liz Truss deliver, deliver, deliver?
What does deliver, deliver, deliver mean? Liz Truss had it as her payoff on accepting the leadership of the Conservative…
Will Liz Truss kill levelling up?
Levelling up is probably not even in the top tier of Liz Truss’s intray for this week, given the pressure…
The minister trying to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol
One of the big priorities for the new Prime Minister is dealing with the situation in Northern Ireland. There’s no…
Finally, some justice for the infected blood scandal’s victims
Why has the greatest patient scandal in the history of the NHS rumbled on for so long before its victims…
Why cost of living talks will have to wait
The Tory leadership candidates will not be joining Boris Johnson in emergency talks about support for people struggling with the…
Is Liz Truss too comfortable?
After England scored their first goal last night, the team visibly relaxed and had a spell of playing happily until…
Sunak is running out of time
This could be the biggest week of the Tory leadership campaign: postal ballots will start arriving on members’ doormats in…
Sunak has his work cut out if he is to win over Tory voters
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak barely have time to catch their breath after last night’s scrappy debate: today they’re back…
All the Keir and no idea: what’s Starmer up to now?
Keir Starmer has given another one of his speeches that seems aimed at his own party rather than the general…
The final three
The leadership candidates on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
Boris Johnson’s final PMQs was a let down
Boris Johnson’s farewell Prime Minister’s Questions was rather like his premiership: full of the unexpected, rather chaotic and a bit…
Will the next Tory leader tackle sleaze?
All the candidates in this Tory leadership contest will have to pay tribute to the importance of standards in public…
Boris isn’t ready to go
Boris Johnson’s final hours as Prime Minister have been undignified. We do not yet know quite how this will end,…
Who will tell Boris it’s over?
In the past couple of minutes, five ministers have resigned as a co-ordinated group and Michael Gove is reported to have…
The most brutal line in Sajid Javid’s resignation speech
Sajid Javid’s resignation in the Commons just now was coldly brutal. He’s had some practice, which he acknowledged, given this…
PMQs will only encourage further rebellion
At one point in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, the Speaker called MPs to order and told them: ‘We’ve got to…
The most damning accusation against Boris Johnson
In the blizzard of letters by Tory MPs who want Boris Johnson to go, one stands out. Chris Skidmore has called…
The ministerial resignations keep on coming
More ministerial resignations are underway and the day has barely begun in Westminster. Will Quince, who had the humiliating job…
Boris appoints Steve Barclay as Health Secretary
Steve Barclay is the new Health Secretary. This is a fascinating move for both political and policy reasons. The first…
The silence of Nadhim Zahawi
One by one, cabinet ministers are confirming that they are not resigning this evening, leaving a very small group of…
Boris remains ‘bullish’ as his cabinet implodes
Shortly after he received the resignations of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, Boris Johnson addressed around 70 Tory MPs who…
Boris’s desperate tearoom tour
This afternoon, a text message went out to certain Tory MPs telling them that the Prime Minister was going to…
Boris ‘forgot’ about Pincher allegations, claims minister
The government’s line yesterday on what Boris Johnson knew about Chris Pincher’s behaviour kept changing. Today, it’s quite hard to find…
