Boris Johnson
How Boris Johnson boxed his Brexit opponents in
As a Leave voter, it is satisfying to watch Boris’s Johnson’s bold Brexit plan unfold. The predictable backlash to it…
What will the Tory and Labour election campaigns look like?
We know that the Conservatives are gearing up for an election in the next few months. Their official line is…
Will the no-deal opponents finally get their act together?
So what now for the opponents of no deal? Boris Johnson has dramatically called their bluff, and as Mr Steerpike…
Johnson confirms he will prorogue parliament
Downing Street has just confirmed that the Prime Minister will be asking the Queen to prorogue parliament ahead of a…
For better or worse, Boris Johnson is different
I’ve learned only one thing at the G7 summit of big rich countries here in Biarritz: Boris Johnson absolutely loves…
Boris’s nightmare is that the EU accepts his Brexit offer
As was to be expected, the EU’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s offer of revisiting the Withdrawal Agreement if the backstop…
To get a deal Boris needs to show (or fake) some humility
There were many Brexiteers who were urging Boris Johnson to travel to Washington before he went anywhere else, to underline…
How did Richard Braine become Dick Braine?
Name calling Richard Braine was appointed leader of Ukip, leading to jokes about the party being led by a ‘Dick…
Boris is facing his Sparta moment
The PM’s hero is the Athenian statesman Pericles, and a Periclean crossroads is now approaching. According to the biographer Plutarch,…
It’s time to talk about what no deal really means
The main reason Conservative MPs prefer Boris Johnson’s government to Theresa May’s is because of its clarity of message. The…
Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel’s optimistic press conference
When Theresa May held press conferences with European leaders over Brexit, they were often a painful affair – with her…
France says no deal now the most likely Brexit outcome. But why now?
Why would French government officials brief that they think it most likely Britain will leave the European Union without a…
Boris Johnson’s Brexit opponents are playing into his hands
There is arguably the most important conflict raging in the Tory party since Churchill replaced Chamberlain as PM in 1940.…
Emmanuel Macron could be Boris Johnson’s Brexit saviour
One thing on which Remainers and Brexiteers can agree is that Brexit delayed is Brexit denied. The government continues to…
Was I wrong about Boris Johnson?
The Conservative commentariat does not march in step. Myself, along with Matthew Parris, Max Hastings and Simon Heffer are proud, stiff-necked…
Where’s Boris?
Before Boris Johnson became Prime Minister there was widespread expectation that his government would be chaotic. It was thought that…
Portrait of the week: All-women cabinets, employment growth and more Hong Kong protests
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, proposed an extra 10,000 prison places and the expansion of stop-and-search powers. PC Stuart…
How Boris’s Roman predecessors took back control
The Tories, allegedly a ‘one-nation’ party, are currently imposing Brexit on a divided nation. As a result, some Tory MPs…
How No. 10 is taking back control
Every Friday at 6 p.m. government aides are summoned to No. 10 Downing Street for a meeting with Dominic Cummings,…
Like Team Boris, I’m staying in London this summer
Foolish me. I could have been writing this by the shore of Lake Trasimene, with only one problem: how to…
Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour?
It is a curious and rather moving experience to see someone you have known for thirty-five years standing in front…
Why Boris Johnson needs an election to deliver Brexit
What more-or-less all Tory MPs seem to have missed is that Philip Hammond, the ex-chancellor who has become the anti-no-deal…
With interest rates crashing, Boris is in luck – he can borrow his way out of any Brexit crisis
Is Boris Johnson the luckiest prime minister ever? This week, the Government can borrow money for ten years at 0.48…
How Athenians would have broken the Brexit deadlock
It is said that our political system is ‘broken’ simply because the passions aroused by Brexit have effectively created a…
We’re heading for a 1 November election
The United Kingdom is a country governed, in large part, by convention —but in the heat of the Brexit debate,…
