Five things we learned from Boris’s Privileges Committee grilling
Boris Johnson has just finished a mammoth three hour evidence session in front of the Privileges Committee inquiry into whether…
Johnson makes his partygate defence
Boris Johnson has today published his long-awaited ‘partygate’ defence, ahead of his appearance before the Privileges Committee tomorrow afternoon. In…
Can Aukus really counter China?
Rishi Sunak has announced in California the details of the UK-US pact to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. Aukus was…
Worst Case scenario
How much longer has the cabinet secretary got?
Will Sunak’s charm offensive with Macron yield results?
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron held a press conference together at the Élysée Palace today to mark their new deal…
Four things we learnt from the Boris Partygate probe
Today the privileges committee has published its initial report into whether Boris Johnson lied to the House of Commons about…
Rishi Sunak is not out of the woods yet
The reaction to Rishi Sunak’s Protocol changes has so far been at the upper end of expectations in No. 10.…
How does the ‘Stormont Brake’ affect the Protocol?
After months of negotiating, Rishi Sunak has today unveiled his changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol. They focus on three…
Rishi risks another asylum outcry
With the likelihood of a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol fading this week, a new issue has emerged to…
Corporation tax could be one of Hunt’s biggest Budget headaches
Public sector pay. Re-negotiating the energy price guarantee. Another fuel duty freeze. Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget on 15 March is…
Damian Green’s rejection is a sign of things to come
Much has been written about Damian Green’s failure on Saturday to be selected for the new Weald of Kent seat.…
Why China could be Truss’s best hope for rehabilitation
This week two former Foreign Secretaries offered competing visions for how Britain should engage with China. On Wednesday, Philip Hammond…
Labour gets its house in order
After 839 days, the Labour party has today been let out of special measures by the equalities watchdog over its…
‘I’m not some toffee-nosed Tory’
Lee Anderson on poverty, immigration and the death penalty
Four things we learnt from Richard Sharp’s BBC grilling
This morning Richard Sharp, the BBC’s Chairman, appeared before the Culture select committee of MPs. It was a difficult session…
What Liz Truss gets right (and wrong)
After three months of silence, Liz Truss has spoken out – first in a 4,000-word article for the Telegraph and…
The anti-strike bill shows the Tories can still unite
The House of Commons voted to pass the government’s flagship trade union legislation on 30 January. By 315 to 246…
Welfare reform is back on the agenda
This week Jonathan Ashworth set out Labour’s answer to the 5.2 million on out-of-work benefits – a figure which The…
‘There’s no point governing with the brakes on’
Simon Clarke on what the PM can learn from ‘radical’ Liz Truss
Peer review
Can the Lords survive?
Trading places
Former environment secretary George Eustice on the PM’s deal dilemma
‘Pure carnage’
The horror of writing Liz Truss’s biography
Government wins fracking vote amid chaos
The government won tonight’s vote on fracking but it truly was a Pyrrhic victory. On paper, the numbers involved –…
What does the new cabinet tell us about Truss?
”Loyalty’ remarked Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe is ‘the Tory party’s secret weapon.’ The near constant blue-on-blue attacks of the last six…
How far will Tugendhat go?
There were three leadership launches in Westminster this morning. Rishi Sunak, the frontrunner, spoke at the QEII Centre; Kemi Badenoch,…
