Boris Johnson
Boris isn’t ready to go
Boris Johnson’s final hours as Prime Minister have been undignified. We do not yet know quite how this will end,…
Is the end nigh for Boris?
Boris Johnson is now facing a situation where if he doesn’t resign he will face more cabinet resignations. Johnson is…
PMQs was a blue-on-blue bloodbath
Knife crime beset PMQs. It was a horrific blue-on-blue bloodbath as Tory backstabbers queued up to play the role of Brutus…
PMQs will only encourage further rebellion
At one point in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, the Speaker called MPs to order and told them: ‘We’ve got to…
How Boris Johnson squandered his premiership
Boris Johnson has been given so many second chances. He hasn’t taken any of them. Let’s start with his voting…
The meeting tonight that will decide Boris Johnson’s fate
The 1922 Committee – the organising body for Conservative MPs – faces a momentous decision on Wednesday night. If its…
There is no way out for Boris Johnson
Just after 6 p.m. yesterday it seemed like the Boris Johnson regime was in total, house of cards style collapse.…
Who says Boris has to go?
As the cameras burped and clicked, as an aggravated nation watched, Boris Johnson announced that he was giving up. ‘Let…
Full list: the Tory MPs who have quit Boris’s government
Boris Johnson’s week has gone from bad to worse. Following partygate, two bruising by-election losses in Tiverton and Honiton and…
Boris ‘forgot’ about Pincher allegations, claims minister
The government’s line yesterday on what Boris Johnson knew about Chris Pincher’s behaviour kept changing. Today, it’s quite hard to find…
Will tactical voting topple the Tories?
Boris Johnson has always been a celebrity politician. It is one of the reasons why the normal rules of politics…
World king vs future king
Boris and Charles have had slightly fractious dealings so far
Nicola Sturgeon has put Boris Johnson in a tight corner
Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she will not contemplate breaching the rule of law by holding an independence referendum was pretty blatant…
All’s calm on my morning train — but it won’t be by autumn
Here I go again, in my occasional role as your intrepid transport correspondent. Last week I reported on airport chaos,…
The Spectator’s Notes
If anyone was suitable to be the Prime Minister’s adviser on ministerial interests, it was Lord Geidt. Self-effacing, professional, unself-righteous…
British politics is stuck
One of the favourite phrases of British political commentators is ‘oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them’. As with all…
To boo or not to boo
Are modern theatre-goers too polite?
The Tories are picking inflation winners and losers
Inflation rose to 9.1 per cent on the year in May, taking the UK’s consumer price index to a 40-year-high.…
Boris is falling into the Macron trap
You can’t blame Boris Johnson for jetting off to Kyiv last week for another meet-and-greet session with Volodymyr Zelensky. He…
Another Boris diplomatic blunder
Boris Johnson has never been one of nature’s diplomats. Unconventional, irreverent, Brexit-backing and norm-defying, the blonde bombshell’s two-year tenure at…
The Northern Ireland Protocol is a problem Boris created
If Boris Johnson was elected on a single slogan, it was ‘Get Brexit done’. He then claimed it was done…
What Boris needs to do to survive
Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…
The game is up, Boris Johnson
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative and Unionist party is also a pretty lousy result for the country. That…
How Boris can cling on
What is happening in the UK right now is similar to the later Berlusconi years, the opera buffa phase of…
Is the fall of Boris inevitable?
A funny thing happened on the way to the cathedral for the service of thanksgiving to the Queen on Friday.…
