Liz Truss
The Conservative party has ceased to be serious
I’m not sure that the Conservative party wants to win elections. Tom Tugendhat was knocked out of the leadership contest…
The latest Tory leadership debate was a grim spectacle
The eyes had it, in last night’s leadership debate. Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak took turns directing to the camera…
The verdict: the second Tory leadership debate
‘If you’re still watching this debate, well done,’ said Mordaunt, bizarrely, in her closing statement. ‘I wish tonight had been…
The case for Liz Truss
The past six years have been a turbulent and controversial time in British politics. Through them all, one person consistently…
Liz Truss enters the leadership contest
Liz Truss has become the tenth candidate to enter the Tory leadership race. Announcing her intentions in an op-ed for…
The Northern Ireland Protocol: the real fight is yet to come
Last night’s vote on the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill didn’t turn into an open revolt from Tory MPs – but…
A letter won't educate Afghan girls
Well, that’ll show ‘em. Liz Truss has released a joint statement with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declaring themselves…
How the Foreign Office secured Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release
There was a rare display of unity in the Commons chamber this afternoon when Liz Truss gave a statement on…
After Boris, who?
Even Boris Johnson’s longest-standing supporters now think he might be on the way out. His admission that he attended a Downing…
Can Boris take back control of No. 10?
Can Boris take back control of No. 10?
Unbowed Boris has put his Tory rivals in their places
Boris was resurgent at PMQs today. He sprinkled scorn, merriment and mischief in all directions. He even boasted that last…
Boris’s successor should be Rishi Sunak, not Liz Truss
Is the ball about to come loose at the back of the scrum? Though an imminent defenestration of Boris Johnson…
Truss fails her first big test
Can anything stop the irresistible rise of Liz Truss? The power-dressing insta lover reinvented herself at International Trade, becoming the…
A matter of Truss: the unlikely rise of Lizmania
If Boris Johnson were to vanish tomorrow, who should replace him? The American pollster Frank Luntz asked this of about 200…
The ancients knew politicians were powerless
Why are cabinet ministers Liz Truss and Dominic Raab squabbling like children over access to grace-and-favour Chevening? Because they know…
Does Liz Truss have what it takes to be Foreign Secretary?
In the dying days of Theresa May’s benighted premiership I spotted a long-serving Tory MP on the same weekend train…
What the Aukus pact says about Britain's foreign policy
While the foreign secretary changed in the last 24 hours, the most important announcement regarding the direction of UK foreign…
Revealed: How the UK-Australia deal was struck
The UK’s first bespoke trade deal agreed since leaving the EU was finalised with Australia over two dinners. One took…
The Japan trade deal shows how desperate we are for investment
A small cheer for Liz Truss’s treaty with Japan. It is, says the official press release, ‘the UK’s first major…
Has Downing Street calculated the real cost of quarantine?
Doing the math, as the Americans say, became this column’s theme after I abandoned another planned trip to France. Seven…
Liz Truss: the Tories can win over the Boohoo generation
‘Get some boomerangs,’ Liz Truss says to her aides. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury isn’t looking for something to…
The spending cuts George Osborne flatly refused to make
The Autumn Statement on 25 November had long been circled in Downing Street diaries as the season’s defining political moment.…
Gove, gone
‘There’s no shame in a cabinet to win the next election,’ declared an exasperated senior No. 10 figure on Tuesday…
David Cameron's misogynistic reshuffle
The PM doesn’t want the new women in his cabinet to do anything but look nice
