Has Jeremy Hunt been left in the lurch?
Boris’s decision to quit yesterday fired the starting gun on the greatest game of them all: the Tory leadership race.…
Watch: Douglas Murray clashes with Alastair Campbell
As the news rolled in that Michael Gove had been sacked by Boris Johnson, our own Douglas Murray was on…
Boris Johnson's five worst moments at the Liaison Committee
It’s not been a good day for Boris Johnson. More than 50 Tory MPs have publicly called for him to…
Has Nadhim turned on Boris already?
Has Nadhim Zahawi turned on Boris Johnson, just 24 hours after he was promoted to Chancellor? That’s the question all…
Tory Twitter gets personal
Resignations! Accusations! Recriminations! It’s all kicking off in the Tory party at present. One man’s misfortune is another man’s opportunity…
Watch: Tory vice chair resigns live on air
You know it’s bad when the Old Etonians are turning on you. After the Cabinet departures of Rishi Sunak and…
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid quit the cabinet
Rishi Sunak has joined Sajid Javid in resigning from the cabinet in a major blow to Boris Johnson’s hopes of…
Watch: Cabinet minister laughs at Boris's excuse
Boris Johnson has more lives than a cat but is the reign of the ‘world king’ finally coming to an…
Pronoun badges backfire for embarrassed banks
Pride month means only one thing: the chance for corporations to embarrass themselves with the latest right-on social media stunt.…
May gives Boris a taste of his own medicine
Oh dear. Is Boris Johnson’s bid to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol over before it really began? First, Simon…
Rishi continues the crypto-craze
Poor Rishi Sunak. The Chancellor was once the golden boy of British politics: the free-spending, Insta-loving, charm-oozing toast of the…
More than 3,000 Tube drivers earn £70,000 each
Londoners have today been cursing the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) trade union for the misery that its 24-hour walkout…
China hawks demand TikTok answers
In Westminster these days, WhatsApp and Twitter are decidedly old school. Now the current craze is TikTok where MPs compete…
Millions more blown on parliamentary pantomime
Whether it’s crumbling rooftiles, weekly fire alarms being activated or bacteria in the water supplies, the creaking Palace of Westminster…
Tories beat inflation with glitzy ball
The cost-of-living crisis might be gripping the country but there was no sign of that at the Tories’ summer party…
Boris pulls out of levelling up conference
To Doncaster, home of the horses and the Northern Research Group conference. But there was only one race on the…
Another Boris diplomatic blunder
Boris Johnson has never been one of nature’s diplomats. Unconventional, irreverent, Brexit-backing and norm-defying, the blonde bombshell’s two-year tenure at…
Putin's Davos flops after sanctions
Oh dear. It seems that starting an unprovoked war is not the best way to inspire foreign investment in your…
New Yorker claims 'racism' dominated jubilee
Just what is it with New Yorkers and London? Normally Steerpike’s ire for the Big Apple is reserved for the…
Estonian PM: When will Macron stop talking to genocidal Putin?
Alongside Britain, Estonia has been among Kyiv’s staunchest allies in its efforts to repulse Putin’s forces, delivering more military equipment…
Does Macron have a police problem?
Things are spicing up over in France. Not content with tear-gassing British children, the Parisian gendarmerie seem to be turning…
Is the Financial Times ashamed of capitalism?
It seems no-one has a good word to say about capitalism these days. For now, even the Financial Times –…
Sue Gray releases her partygate pics
Well, it’s finally here. After five months of waiting, Sue Gray has today released her report into the parties that…
Top US pollster: don't ditch Boris
To the CPS, the think-tank home of Thatcherite free-thinking. On today’s agenda: a sermon from Frank Luntz, the onetime populist Republican…
China's secret property empire
The Russian bear might be back but the Chinese dragon waits in the wings. Moscow’s spectacularly mismanaged invasion of Ukraine…
