Wes Streeting finally resigns
After days of deliberation, Wes Streeting has finally quit Keir Starmer’s government. At the stroke of 1 p.m., the Ilford…
Keir Starmer looked utterly miserable during the King’s Speech
This King’s Speech will live long in the memory: not for its contents, but for its context. The long-planned state…
Keir Starmer is done
This morning’s cabinet meeting was one for the ages. At 9.30 a.m., British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was greeted by…
Keir Starmer’s position is looking increasingly untenable
Things are moving very fast in Westminster this evening. More than 60 Labour MPs are publicly calling on the Prime…
Starmer is shedding support across Labour
By inclination, tradition and design, the Labour Party is much less prone to toppling leaders than their Conservative counterparts. There…
Labour MP: I’ll challenge Starmer for leader
In the aftermath of Thursday’s shellacking, a steady stream of Labour MPs have been coming out and calling on Keir…
Farage is the local election winner – again
It was a little before 3 a.m that Nigel Farage sauntered in to the spin room at Millbank Tower, where…
Kemi Badenoch: ‘I’m the one holding Labour to account’
It is 11:26 a.m. and Kemi Badenoch is on her second drink of the day. The Tory leader is out…
Is Reform now Scotland’s leading unionist party?
In Scotland, a changing of the guard is near. But while Hearts are set to break the duopoly of Celtic…
‘Even Corbyn at his worst never lost here’: how bad will it be for Labour in Wales?
Of all Labour’s heartlands, none has more mythos or magic than Wales. Its history of pits and pulpits produced Nye…
Starmer squirms on Mandelson debacle
Keir Starmer is enduring perhaps his most uncomfortable afternoon in the House Commons since being elected Britain’s Prime Minister. He…
Olly Robbins sacked over Mandelson scandal
The Mandelson scandal claims yet another victim. Late on Thursday night, Olly Robbins was sacked from his post as the…
Did Starmer mislead MPs over Mandelson?
It is the cardinal rule of British politics: never lie to parliament. For, as Boris Johnson found to his cost,…
Trump is making life increasingly hard for his allies
Here is a fun one: what do Giorgia Meloni, Pope Leo XIV, Ed Miliband and the Cato Institute all have…
Reform aim to weaponise the ‘Boriswave’
With three weeks to go until the local elections, Reform are back campaigning on their favourite subject: migration. Having talked…
Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded election victory in Hungary after 16 years in power, with the opposition on course…
The Tory-fication of Reform
Nigel Farage likes a gamble. Crypto bros and hedge-fund managers bankroll his enterprises; his social circle is filled with traders,…
Starmer was plodding and peevish at PMQs
One of the great gifts in politics is the capacity to surprise. Kemi Badenoch, again, demonstrated her ability in this…
Badenoch goes traditional at Tory local launch
The Tories launched their local election campaign this morning, with a beaming Kemi Badenoch surrounded by rows of flag-waving party…
Angela Rayner’s warning to Shabana Mahmood over migrant crackdown
Shabana Mahmood made an impressive start as Home Secretary. Within her first 100 days, she had set out a tough…
Revealed: Lib Dems’ plan for ‘Operation Epsom Fury’
Is any party having a ‘good war’ on Iran? After Donald Trump’s first strikes, I suggested that the Prime Minister…
Could Labour lose London?
After Gorton and Denton, where next? The scale of the Green triumph in Manchester has sent shockwaves through Sir Keir…
Where was the imagination in Reeves’s Spring Statement?
Today’s Spring Statement was intended to be the anti-Budget: no rabbits, no leaks, no lengthy speeches. After last November’s disaster,…
Starmer has few good options on Iran
Next month marks forty years since the United States bombed Libya. Ronald Reagan requested the use of British air bases…
‘I bet there are loads of women who find Farage sexy’: the writers of Industry on putting politics on screen
No TV show better encapsulates the nexus between money and power than Industry. The HBO drama sees investment bankers screwing,…
