A Graywash? Downing Street party report is merely an ‘update'
Sue Gray’s report on the lockdown partying in Downing Street is short. Just 11 pages. Early on, it makes clear…
A rather pointless PMQs lets Boris off the hook
Given the extraordinarily low expectations, Prime Minister’s Questions went reasonably well for Boris Johnson today. That is partly because it…
The curious timing of Boris Johnson's Covid announcement
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist who mutters regularly about ‘sheeple’ to find the timing of Boris Johnson’s…
Pills to post
The antivirals taskforce is at the ready
Boris Johnson rejects lockdown (again)
Boris Johnson latest Covid press conference was slightly confusing. The Prime Minister spent nearly an hour saying nothing particularly new.…
Boris Johnson’s friendship problem
Boris Johnson is hoping that his MPs have calmed down over the Christmas break and that this term will be…
Boris suffers huge Tory revolt over vaccine passports
Boris Johnson has just suffered a large majority-busting revolt in the House of Commons over vaccine passports, with 98 Conservatives…
Labour is the real winner of tonight's vote
Sajid Javid found himself wading through treacle as he tried to make the case for the government’s ‘Plan B’ to…
Boris takes his colleagues for fools
Is Boris Johnson really deploying a ‘diversionary tactic’ in announcing vaccine passports on the day he has had to perform…
Boris throws his staff under the bus
What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…
Boris's booster bet
Boris Johnson is relying heavily on the booster programme to protect Britain from any additional threat posed by the Omicron…
Johnson is making the sleaze row worse
Is there anyone left in the Conservative party who is happy with Boris Johnson? The Prime Minister has now managed…
The sleaze row isn't finished yet
Number 10 will have been relieved that the weekend did not bring new stories about Conservative MPs raking in lots…
The death of David Amess has no easy answers
Why has the political debate following Sir David Amess’s killing moved so swiftly to focus on civility in politics? It’s…
Priti Patel strikes a bullish tone
The theme of Priti Patel’s party conference speech this afternoon was very much ‘large and in charge’. She devoted much…
The contradictory Tory home working jibes
Why have ministers become so obsessed with where people are doing their work? The war on working from home has…
Why the fringes are taking centre stage at Tory conference
Tory conference is so stage-managed these days that the main hall has long felt like a bit of a sideshow…
Harriet Harman calls for Cressida Dick to resign
Labour’s Harriet Harman has called for Cressida Dick to resign as chief of the Metropolitan Police after Wayne Couzens was…
Starmer is missing a major trick
Labour’s party conference slogan is ‘stronger future together’. It’s sufficiently anodyne that despite it being emblazoned all over a massive…
Andy McDonald's resignation spells trouble for Starmer
Andy McDonald has resigned from Labour’s shadow cabinet after Keir Starmer refused to back raising the Minimum Wage to £15…
Starmer secures a narrow victory against the left
Keir Starmer this evening managed to scrape through his reforms to how Labour elects its leader. The victory follows a…
Boris Johnson's government shake-up continues
After a rather quiet day, the reshuffle is back on, and Boris Johnson is proving to be even more brutal…
Javid avoids Tory Covid powers fightback – for now
Tory MPs were not happy when Sajid Javid unveiled the Covid winter plan in the Commons this afternoon. They’re dissatisfied…
Tory MPs back Boris's tax hike
As expected, this evening the Commons approved the 1.25 per cent increase in National Insurance, with 319 votes in favour…
On Afghanistan, Boris Johnson has escaped again
Boris Johnson took a strangely upbeat tone when he updated MPs on Afghanistan this afternoon. He argued that British planning…
