Boris Johnson
Will Liz Truss kill levelling up?
Levelling up is probably not even in the top tier of Liz Truss’s intray for this week, given the pressure…
After Boris
Boris Johnson has so dominated politics for the past few years that it is hard to imagine things without him.…
Diary
You wait 11 years for a Tory leadership election and then three come along in quick succession. The first in…
Who will fill the Boris void?
Boris Johnson’s last set piece speech today was typical him. There were references to Ladybird books, attempts to blame the…
Poll: voters don’t want Boris in Truss’s Cabinet
The Tory leadership race is almost over and at last a new PM will be announced. Most expect that next…
Who will Liz forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
The article that made Boris ‘hang my head in shame’
Boris Johnson has written more than his fair share of controversial stuff over the years. Whether it’s jibes at Islam,…
Send in the clowns
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet is the highlight of Edinburgh’s opening week. In this experimental ballet, Sir Ian speaks roughly 5 per…
Do Conservative members miss Boris?
Boris Johnson is very much the elephant in the room of this leadership race, looming large over both Rishi Sunak…
Where will Boris write his column?
With just four weeks left in No. 10, rumours are swirling about Boris Johnson’s future plans. Will he quit the…
Boris Johnson’s warning from history
After a long period in office, it’s natural for any political party to lose their zeal for governing. As problems…
Boris ‘wants to carry on’ as PM
Faced with the choice of Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, some Tories are experiencing something close to sellers’ remorse. Was…
Will Boris be back?
‘Hasta la vista, baby’ Boris Johnson told the Commons at his final PMQs. But could the fallen leader be seeking…
Letter from France
Back in 1997 when I was narked on by a fellow journalist (Simon Walters, currently of the Times, then of…
The Spectator’s Notes
Whitehall is telling ministers that this is a ‘caretaker’ government and so, by convention, cannot take decisions. This is not…
Low life
Here come the global elites. They love it here. Their spiritual second home. The heat, the rosé, the food, the…
Advice to my successor
Boris Johnson completed his final PMQs this afternoon, offering some ‘final words of advice’ to his successor. Spectator readers may recall his…
Letters
Boris’s legacy Sir: It is grossly unfair to assert that Boris Johnson’s legacy was the lockdown (Leading article, 9 July).…
Our
There was a word I didn’t understand in Boris Johnson’s resignation speech (in which he did not resign). He spoke…
Theresa revels in Boris’s downfall
Of all those revelling in Boris Johnson’s downfall last week, few probably enjoyed it more than Theresa May. It would…
Cakeconomics
Why Rishi Sunak quit
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sajid Javid as Health Secretary. (Nadhim Zahawi accepted the post…
We’ll always have wine
‘Club’ is a four-letter word. Whenever a club is mentioned in the press, it will inevitably be portrayed as a…
Boris was never Trump
The urge to compare Boris Johnson to Donald Trump was always irresistible. It has been fun, too. Both men are colourful…
Boris skewered – for one last time?
A brutal encounter at the Liaison Committee this afternoon. Boris was grilled for two hours by a gang of aggressive…
