Braverman chooses Jenrick to be her shield
Suella Braverman didn’t come to the Commons to answer the Urgent Question that her Conservative colleague Sir Roger Gale had…
Why Sunak backtracked over fines for missed GP appointments
Not surprisingly, Rishi Sunak has dropped plans to fine NHS patients £10 for missed appointments. It was one of the…
Sunak will be pleased with his PMQs debut
Rishi Sunak vs Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions today was spicier than many had expected. Both men enjoyed themselves,…
Rishi Sunak vows to fix things for Britain
Unlike Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak didn’t skirt around the circumstances of the changing of the guard in No 10. His…
Liz Truss’s defiant farewell speech
Liz Truss’s final words as Prime Minister were not just an attempt to set out what she sees as being…
What’s next for Rishi Sunak as prime minister?
What is Rishi Sunak going to do as prime minister? We are still little the wiser, even after he addressed…
After Truss, who?
Sir Graham Brady has just given a statement outside the St Stephen’s entrance of parliament. The chair of the 1922…
Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?
Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…
‘She’s just so bad at everything’: Tory MPs turn on Truss
Liz Truss’s Downing Street press conference has made everything worse, as far as Tory MPs are concerned. As soon as…
Will sacking Kwarteng be enough to save Truss’s premiership?
Can sacking Kwasi Kwarteng really save Liz Truss’s premiership? In the past few minutes, the chancellor has had a meeting…
Liz Truss walks into another row
With a wearying inevitability, Liz Truss has gone from one row to another. One of her own cabinet ministers, Leader…
What does Michael Gove want?
Tory conference has long been more stage-managed than other party meetings, but this year the official speeches from ministers have…
Why would Tory MPs trust Truss now?
Most Tory MPs went to bed last night convinced that their party was heading for an almighty showdown over the…
Is levelling up dead?
Does Liz Truss really believe in levelling up? She doesn’t talk about it that much, and it wasn’t really a…
Keir Starmer’s cautious conference speech
Keir Starmer’s big speech to his party’s conference was about the practical things Labour could do to fix Britain. He…
Is Labour ready for power?
Labour conference has been pretty strange so far. Not the sort of strange that parties in opposition get comfortably used…
‘Keir’s not Superman, he can’t do it all by himself’
Is Wes Streeting Labour’s next leader?
Not all Tory MPs are happy about Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini Budget
Rachel Reeves’ response to the not-a-budget was one of the best Budget responses a shadow chancellor has produced in Labour’s…
Parliament’s poignant tributes to the Queen
That so many people have wanted to say something about how the Queen touched their lives, whether or not they…
Truss’s appointments are ruffling Tory feathers
Liz Truss has started to appoint supporters of her leadership campaign rivals to ministerial positions, answering the demand (mostly from…
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…
