Boris Johnson
Scrapping English votes for English laws could spell trouble
It has been almost 45 years since Tam Dalyell first asked the West Lothian Question. It is a damning indictment…
Rishi Sunak: I’m a fiscal Conservative (unlike Boris)
When Rishi Sunak told Andrew Neil this evening that he had his eyes on the future, he was ostensibly talking…
Cummings’s messages aren’t a ‘bombshell’ revelation
On days like this, I despair of the media-political village where I’ve spent most of my adult life. Because that…
Keir Starmer is alienating both sides in the Brexit debate
What is it with Labour and Brexit? An issue that during Theresa May’s premiership looked like it could rip the…
The cost of delaying ‘freedom day’
When Boris Johnson announced that unlocking would be guided by ‘data not dates’ he handed detractors ample scope for derision…
Boris Johnson delays the end of lockdown
Boris Johnson has this evening confirmed that he will delay the lifting of all Covid restrictions by four weeks to…
The lockdown delay has triggered a constitutional crisis
It is not the Battle of Marston Moor, but it strikes me that we are now in something of a…
What Tory MPs fear most about a lockdown delay
As Boris Johnson prepares to announce a four-week delay to the final stage out of lockdown, he faces a mixed reaction.…
Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland problem
In an at times grouchy press conference, Boris Johnson tried to calm the row over the Northern Ireland protocol. The…
Boris Johnson’s refusal to talk about faith
I am struggling to make sense of the Prime Minister’s answer to my question: whether he is a practising Roman…
How Starmer can beat Boris
How should Keir Starmer deal with a problem like Boris Johnson? Despite the Prime Minister’s mistakes in the handling of…
Special time
Biden and Boris will pretend the Trump presidency never happened
Is it time to end the G7 spouse circus?
Turn on any television news broadcast and peruse any news stand on the eve of the G7 summit, and what…
Biden proves that Trump was a true British ally
Now that Joe Biden has landed, many Brits may now be realising what a stalwart friend you had in Trump. Within minutes…
Priti Patel is running out of excuses for the Channel migrant crisis
When immigration minister Chris Philp announced last summer that he was in the process of agreeing a ‘new operational plan’ with…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
Open road
It seems all but impossible to convince government scientists of the wisdom of proceeding with the final lifting of Covid…
Portrait of the Week
Home Freelance scientists urged the government not to end coronavirus regulations on 21 June, for fear of a third wave.…
What the Prime Misfit got right
Should the name of Dominic Cummings ever make it into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, there’s one Cummings phrase…
Why Boris is loved by the French
Boris Johnson is more popular in France than Emmanuel Macron, which might not be a high hurdle to overcome, since…
Boris’s media critics are missing the real story
The five most frustrating words a journalist can hear are: ‘This is not a story’. Over the years, I have…
‘There is no alternative’: Why Boris will keep winning
Those of us who generally wish this Government well and consider Boris Johnson a preferable holder of the office of…
The Dom bomb
The more anticipated a parliamentary appearance, the less it tends to live up to its billing. But Dominic Cummings’s testimony…
Will Cummings’s accusations damage Boris Johnson?
One of Dominic Cummings’s strengths as a campaigner was his genius for a clear message – think ‘Take Back Control’…
Cummings, Covid and groupthink – a cautionary tale
It is hard to deny the importance of the issues raised this week by Dominic Cummings. His decision to identify…
