‘She’s just so bad at everything’: Tory MPs turn on Truss
Liz Truss’s Downing Street press conference has made everything worse, as far as Tory MPs are concerned. As soon as…
Will sacking Kwarteng be enough to save Truss’s premiership?
Can sacking Kwasi Kwarteng really save Liz Truss’s premiership? In the past few minutes, the chancellor has had a meeting…
Liz Truss walks into another row
With a wearying inevitability, Liz Truss has gone from one row to another. One of her own cabinet ministers, Leader…
What does Michael Gove want?
Tory conference has long been more stage-managed than other party meetings, but this year the official speeches from ministers have…
Why would Tory MPs trust Truss now?
Most Tory MPs went to bed last night convinced that their party was heading for an almighty showdown over the…
Is levelling up dead?
Does Liz Truss really believe in levelling up? She doesn’t talk about it that much, and it wasn’t really a…
Keir Starmer’s cautious conference speech
Keir Starmer’s big speech to his party’s conference was about the practical things Labour could do to fix Britain. He…
Is Labour ready for power?
Labour conference has been pretty strange so far. Not the sort of strange that parties in opposition get comfortably used…
Wes Streeting: ‘Keir’s not Superman, he can’t do it all by himself’
Is Wes Streeting Labour’s next leader?
Not all Tory MPs are happy about Kwasi Kwarteng's mini Budget
Rachel Reeves’ response to the not-a-budget was one of the best Budget responses a shadow chancellor has produced in Labour’s…
Parliament's poignant tributes to the Queen
That so many people have wanted to say something about how the Queen touched their lives, whether or not they…
Truss’s appointments are ruffling Tory feathers
Liz Truss has started to appoint supporters of her leadership campaign rivals to ministerial positions, answering the demand (mostly from…
Revealed: Labour's tactics to deal with Truss
Keir Starmer tonight told the weekly parliamentary Labour party meeting that ‘we will never underestimate Liz Truss’. The Labour leader…
Priti Patel resigns. Will she cause trouble for Liz Truss?
Priti Patel has announced she is standing down as Home Secretary and returning to the backbenches ahead of an expected…
Can Liz Truss deliver, deliver, deliver?
What does deliver, deliver, deliver mean? Liz Truss had it as her payoff on accepting the leadership of the Conservative…
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…
The minister trying to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol
One of the big priorities for the new Prime Minister is dealing with the situation in Northern Ireland. There’s no…
Finally, some justice for the infected blood scandal's victims
Why has the greatest patient scandal in the history of the NHS rumbled on for so long before its victims…
Why cost of living talks will have to wait
The Tory leadership candidates will not be joining Boris Johnson in emergency talks about support for people struggling with the…
Is Liz Truss too comfortable?
After England scored their first goal last night, the team visibly relaxed and had a spell of playing happily until…
Sunak is running out of time
This could be the biggest week of the Tory leadership campaign: postal ballots will start arriving on members’ doormats in…
Sunak has his work cut out if he is to win over Tory voters
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak barely have time to catch their breath after last night’s scrappy debate: today they’re back…
All the Keir and no idea: what's Starmer up to now?
Keir Starmer has given another one of his speeches that seems aimed at his own party rather than the general…
Last ones standing: the leadership finalists on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
The leadership candidates on taxes, net zero and freedom of speech
Boris Johnson's final PMQs was a let down
Boris Johnson’s farewell Prime Minister’s Questions was rather like his premiership: full of the unexpected, rather chaotic and a bit…
