Norman Tebbit was a proper politician
Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the dominant political figures of my youth.…
Can Keir Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts?
It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo…
Revealed: Morgan McSweeney’s memo to the PM on how Labour could fail
In this week’s cover story, I revealed details of a memo written by Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of…
‘It’s Liz Truss territory’: how bad are things for Kemi Badenoch?
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?
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
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?
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
I spent a bit of time last week on the set of the new Brexit film, which James Graham has…
Brexit’s breaking points
Trying to write the first draft of history on the EU referendum and the leader-ship mess that followed had both…
