What lessons can Britain learn from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ordeal?
‘How many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home? Five?’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken for the first…
Why is Britain so useless at helping Ukrainian refugees?
Some MPs were in tears yesterday when President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons, and understandably so, given the…
No-fly zones won’t work, but what about aid to Ukraine?
Vladimir Putin’s forces are encircling the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol, and a 40 mile-long convoy of Russian armoured vehicles…
Ending restrictions won't save Boris
Boris Johnson certainly managed to rally the troops on their first day back from recess this afternoon as he told…
PMQs: Boris's anger over new partygate picture
The takeaway moment from today’s PMQs came not in the main exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer but…
Boris Johnson is running out of options
The No. 10 operation’s decision to double down on the Starmer/Savile row after the Labour leader was accosted in the…
Boris is finished — it’s when, not if
This week, Michael Gove’s lengthy Levelling Up white paper talked about the ancient city of Jericho. This was largely because…
PMQs: Boris doubles down on Jimmy Savile claims
Today’s PMQs suggests that some of the immediate heat has gone the partygate crisis, if only temporarily. Sir Keir Starmer…
Johnson's defence deteriorates
That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…
A Graywash? Downing Street party report is merely an ‘update'
Sue Gray’s report on the lockdown partying in Downing Street is short. Just 11 pages. Early on, it makes clear…
A rather pointless PMQs lets Boris off the hook
Given the extraordinarily low expectations, Prime Minister’s Questions went reasonably well for Boris Johnson today. That is partly because it…
The curious timing of Boris Johnson's Covid announcement
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist who mutters regularly about ‘sheeple’ to find the timing of Boris Johnson’s…
Pills to post
The antivirals taskforce is at the ready
Boris Johnson rejects lockdown (again)
Boris Johnson latest Covid press conference was slightly confusing. The Prime Minister spent nearly an hour saying nothing particularly new.…
Boris Johnson’s friendship problem
Boris Johnson is hoping that his MPs have calmed down over the Christmas break and that this term will be…
Boris suffers huge Tory revolt over vaccine passports
Boris Johnson has just suffered a large majority-busting revolt in the House of Commons over vaccine passports, with 98 Conservatives…
Labour is the real winner of tonight's vote
Sajid Javid found himself wading through treacle as he tried to make the case for the government’s ‘Plan B’ to…
Boris takes his colleagues for fools
Is Boris Johnson really deploying a ‘diversionary tactic’ in announcing vaccine passports on the day he has had to perform…
Boris throws his staff under the bus
What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…
Boris's booster bet
Boris Johnson is relying heavily on the booster programme to protect Britain from any additional threat posed by the Omicron…
Johnson is making the sleaze row worse
Is there anyone left in the Conservative party who is happy with Boris Johnson? The Prime Minister has now managed…
The sleaze row isn't finished yet
Number 10 will have been relieved that the weekend did not bring new stories about Conservative MPs raking in lots…
The death of David Amess has no easy answers
Why has the political debate following Sir David Amess’s killing moved so swiftly to focus on civility in politics? It’s…
Priti Patel strikes a bullish tone
The theme of Priti Patel’s party conference speech this afternoon was very much ‘large and in charge’. She devoted much…
The contradictory Tory home working jibes
Why have ministers become so obsessed with where people are doing their work? The war on working from home has…
