Tim Shipman

‘It’s Liz Truss territory’: how bad are things for Kemi Badenoch?

28 June 2025 9:00 am

Around 5 p.m. on Monday one of Kemi Badenoch’s aides was having a drink with a friend in the Two…

Why has a leak inquiry been launched into Hermer’s legal advice?

27 June 2025 12:24 am

I have now been told by four people in government that a leak inquiry is being conducted into the revelations…

Starmer’s war zone: the Prime Minister is in a perilous position

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer was alerted in the early hours of Friday by his national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, that Israel’s…

Hyper-history: why did politics go crazy?

27 April 2024 9:00 am

On the day Theresa May signed her Brexit withdrawal agreement with Brussels, Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, resigned. She tried…

Brexit: how to make a TV drama out of a crisis

28 July 2018 9:00 am

I spent a bit of time last week on the set of the new Brexit film, which James Graham has…

Brexit’s breaking points

10 December 2016 9:00 am

Trying to write the first draft of history on the EU referendum and the leader-ship mess that followed had both…