Theresa May

Theresa May gets her pay day

6 January 2023 1:56 am

It’s safe to say that most Conservative MPs will want to forget about 2022: three Prime Ministers, four Chancellors and…

Theresa revels in Boris's downfall

14 July 2022 9:43 pm

Of all those revelling in Boris Johnson’s downfall last week, few probably enjoyed it more than Theresa May. It would…

Boris may be toppled by accident

4 June 2022 9:00 am

Every Tory leader fears a plot against them. Their paranoia isn’t helped by the layout of Westminster, which lends itself…

A must-see for Westminster obsessives: Riverside Studios' Bloody Difficult Women reviewed

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Bloody Difficult Women is a documentary drama by the popular journalist Tim Walker, which looks at the similarities between Gina…

‘Operation Red Meat’ won’t beef up the government

22 January 2022 9:00 am

Are you ready for ‘Operation Red Meat’? If not, then you should brace yourself. For it looks set to be…

Foreign honours for Hunt and May

21 December 2021 10:09 pm

Not many people here in Westminster have a good word to say about the Theresa May years. But down in tiny…

The best children’s books: a Spectator Christmas survey

18 December 2021 9:00 am

J.K. Rowling Poignant, funny and genuinely scary, The Hundred and One Dalmatians was one of my favourite books as a…

Theresa May's risqué joke

25 November 2021 8:45 pm

Boris couldn’t make it but fortunately there was one Tory premier at last night’s Spectator parliamentarian awards. Former Prime Minister…

Blue on Blue: May savages Boris

17 November 2021 2:50 am

The faults in the Tory party were on show for all to see today, as MPs were forced to debate…

Is troubled Trudeau the new Theresa May?

1 September 2021 8:30 am

Oh dear. For years Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been at pains to prove his feminist credentials. Whether it’s correcting a…

Is Theresa May in any position to criticise Boris?

21 August 2021 3:00 pm

When Theresa May told a joke at her own expense at a reception of Tory MPs held to celebrate Boris…

Why is the government so reluctant to give freedom back to citizens?

13 June 2021 9:26 pm

One year on, we are no further forward. We have a devastated industry, jobs lost and global Britain shut for…

Alan Duncan rants about ‘idiot’ parliamentary colleagues and Britain’s waning influence

24 April 2021 9:00 am

As a budding political apparatchik, my first job out of university was as a junior parliamentary assistant to Alan Duncan…

How did an enigma like Theresa May become PM?

16 February 2021 5:36 am

Theresa May is not the easiest person to speak to in Westminster. She is reluctant to get drawn into a…

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Is Donald Trump really anti-abortion?

6 September 2020 8:39 pm

At the Republican National Convention last month, he was repeatedly described as the ‘most pro-life President ever’. According to some…

Which former prime minister earns the most for corporate speeches?

27 June 2020 9:00 am

Voyage into history How did the Labour government respond to the arrival of the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948?…

How to run Number 10: An insider’s guide

14 January 2020 6:21 pm

Gavin Barwell was Theresa May’s chief of staff between 2017 and 2019. He was the MP for Croydon Central between 2010…

Portrait of the year: From May to a December election

21 December 2019 9:00 am

January ‘If parliament backs a deal, Britain can turn a corner,’ Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said. The Commons defeated…

Viral videos, not leaders’ debates, could decide this election

7 December 2019 9:00 am

You might well expect the final election debate, Johnson vs Corbyn head-to-head on primetime BBC, to provide the most watched…

Nick Timothy: Theresa May folded like a Brompton bike during the Brexit negotiations

2 November 2019 9:00 am

As my train hurtles northward, my phone starts to buzz. Jeremy Corbyn has agreed to hold a December election. So:…

Tacitus knew how to handle stories from ‘insiders’ and ‘sources’

14 September 2019 9:00 am

We read much about ‘fake news’ these days and of efforts to rid the internet of it. But what of…

Theresa May’s honours list makes me sick

14 September 2019 9:00 am

The BBC featured a gay wedding on Songs of Praise recently. Of course it did. The thinking was, I assume:…

The three numbers that measure Britain’s constitutional crisis

11 September 2019 12:22 am

Here in a few numbers is the measure of the catastrophic mess we are in; caused by failing to resolve…

Boris Johnson could be about to lose everything – or redefine British politics

7 September 2019 9:00 am

Boris Johnson has already decided on his election message: vote for me and get Brexit, vote for anyone else and…

Boris’s nightmare is that the EU accepts his Brexit offer

24 August 2019 3:30 pm

As was to be expected, the EU’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s offer of revisiting the Withdrawal Agreement if the backstop…