Tory party
The Uber scandal highlights big tech’s big failure
A few years ago the Conservatives were excited about the march of the tech giants. Uber was offering an alternative…
Why the Tories are more diverse than Labour
‘The candidates fighting to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader and Britain’s prime minister reflect the country’s rich diversity,’…
What the Tory candidates’ logos say about them
There’s a particularly amusing picture from the 1997 Tory leadership contest of Ken Clarke and John Redwood awkwardly paired up…
Gove backs Kemi Badenoch for prime minister
Michael Gove has endorsed Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader. Badenoch, who was one of his junior ministers at the Department…
The truth about life as a gay Tory MP
Male Tory MPs molesting young men? Buttock-squeezing and groin-fumbling at a private members’ club? A middle-aged politician slipping into a…
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…
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…
The silence of Nadhim Zahawi
One by one, cabinet ministers are confirming that they are not resigning this evening, leaving a very small group of…
Why tactical voting is so dangerous for the Tories
Boris Johnson has always been a celebrity politician. It is one of the reasons why the normal rules of politics…
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…
Boris may be toppled by accident
Every Tory leader fears a plot against them. Their paranoia isn’t helped by the layout of Westminster, which lends itself…
For Boris, the hard bit is just beginning
Boris Johnson has been plunged back into the mire of partygate. The publication of a photograph of Johnson raising a…
Boris’s plan to divide and conquer
Boris Johnson has never quite been able to decide whether he wants to be a great unifier or a great…
How Britain was misled over Europe for 60 years
Just as one is inclined to believe Carlyle’s point that the history of the world is but the biography of…
Rishi Sunak’s political naivety
Before the war in Ukraine, ministers and Tory MPs believed a fixedpenalty notice for the Prime Minister would mean the…
Boris Johnson's fightback has been cut short
Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, has this morning announced that he is sending a letter to…
Nigel Farage’s China curveball should worry the Tory party
I have lost count of the number of times the Conservative Party has thought it has shot Nigel Farage’s fox.…
The MP demanding a new approach to China
The shift in Tory thinking on China
Boris wants a 2024 election – and wants to start his building boom now
‘The clock is ticking.’ It is surely only a matter of time before Michel Barnier returns to his notorious catchphrase…
Boris wants a 2024 election – and wants to start his building boom now
‘The clock is ticking.’ It is surely only a matter of time before Michel Barnier returns to his notorious catchphrase…
The first 100 days will make or break Boris
Boris Johnson’s first 100 days will make or break him — which is what makes his premiership unlike any other.…
If there’s no deal, there’s no Brexit
Iraq, the financial crisis, the expenses scandal — all of these undermined trust in politicians. They created an impression of…
Forget hard and soft Brexit – we’re heading for a blind Brexit
Brexit won’t be over by 29 March 2019. Britain will legally leave the European Union on that date. But that…
In the end, the Remainers will win. The powerful always do
Before the referendum, I predicted behind closed doors that even if Leave improbably prevailed, Britain’s political establishment would ensure that…
Order, order! In the Commons, you are where you sit
Diet nannies will spend Christmas telling us ‘you are what you eat’ but in the House of Commons ‘you are…
