Boris Johnson
Boris hasn’t seen the last of the Tory lockdown rebels
Boris Johnson is wrong if he thinks this week’s Tory rebellion on the tiered system marks the end of his…
Boris’s clash over masks
‘Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme,’ the free market economist Milton Friedman famously noted. So just how…
The aftermath
How can Britain recover post-Covid?
Have Boris and Starmer worked out each other’s weaknesses?
Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to use his Prime Minister’s Questions to build a narrative about the government’s lack of…
Boris’s green industrial revolution is doomed to fail
Boris Johnson’s ‘green industrial revolution’, which was announced this week, looks doomed from the outset. From our heating to how we…
How to keep the UK united
Tory MPs are already starting to talk about May’s various elections. Boris Johnson’s first post-Covid electoral test will take place…
Blowing in the wind
With Cummings gone, which way will the PM turn now?
Diary
It is such a relief that Dominic Cummings has gone. Not for the sake of the country or the government…
The wrong reset
The psychodrama in No. 10 is badly timed. The government has used emergency powers to ban meetings, church services and…
Princess of Whales
Inside the court of Carrie Symonds
Barometer
Boris and the butcher’s dog Who first coined the phrase ‘as fit as a butcher’s dog’? It has been traced…
Portrait of the week
Home Dominic Cummings, the chief adviser to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, left Downing Street after a week in which…
Brexit could help Boris’s green revolution come to life
Boris Johnson announced his new ten-point plan for Britain’s transition to a net-zero carbon emissions economy this week. It is…
Why Boris, not Rishi, will lead the Tories into the next election
Some Tory MPs are hoping that Dominic Cummings’ departure from Downing Street will bring with it a vital lift to…
The fatal flaw in Boris’s ten point carbon plan
There is nothing wrong with the general direction of policy contained within the government’s ten point plan to cut carbon…
Boris’s eco-optimism will get the better of him
Vote blue for green jobs in the red wall. That’s the message we’re supposed to take from Boris Johnson’s ten…
Boris was right: Scottish devolution has been a disaster
Boris Johnson says devolution has been a ‘disaster’. This has the rare quality for a Boris statement of being true…
Boris set to unveil ‘Ten Point Plan’ for a green industrial revolution
Boris Johnson wants to use this week to relaunch his leadership after a torrid few days in his top team.…
Does Boris have a supporters’ club left in Parliament?
Boris Johnson needs to use the departure of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain to repair relations with his Parliamentary party.…
Johnson’s turnip bogle
At least in London, midwinter spring has not been entirely vanquished, and the trees are still a couple of strong…
A deal to be done
It now looks increasingly likely that lockdown will end on 2 December, after all. The decision to impose further restrictions…
Boris’s booster shot
The first full week of the new national lockdown had the potential to be very difficult for Boris Johnson. Although…
Alas
Boris Johnson looked unhappy, as well he might, standing at his indoor lectern last Saturday to announce the new lockdown:…
This lockdown is much riskier
Keir Starmer has his first attack line of the next general election campaign. He will say that England’s second lockdown…
A lockdown too far
The benefit of having a lockdown announced some days in advance is the ability to savour what is about to…
