sue gray
Portrait of the week: Sue Gray resigns and the Chagos Islands are handed back
Home Sue Gray resigned as chief of staff to Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister. She will become Sir Keir’s envoy…
Plutarch’s lessons for Labour
The lives of those daily in the public eye are bound to attract attention, especially when they are politicians telling…
Who will dress Keir Starmer now?
It is worth upholding the stuffy point which should have prevailed at the start. It was always improper and unethical…
Now Sue Gray’s son is in the firing line
It seems that bad headlines run in Sue Gray’s family. After a week of newspaper reports suggesting that Keir Starmer’s…
The secret diary of Sue Gray
Once we entered Downing Street a No. 10 protocol adviser took Vic upstairs to show her the facilities in the private…
Boris Johnson’s guilt
An ability to survive narrow scrapes has been one of Boris Johnson’s defining qualities. The pictures of Downing Street’s lockdown…
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…
Portrait of the week: Sue Gray reports, ScotRail slashes trains and monkeypox spreads
Home Sue Gray starched and ironed her report for publication after the Metropolitan Police wound up its own enquiries into…
Downing Street’s growing problem
In answers to questions following his statement in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson let drop an interesting statistic. He…
Boris must go!
Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…
Johnson faces a mauling from his own MPs
Ahead of the publication of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, there had been talk that the police investigation — which…
Johnson's defence deteriorates
That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…
My encounter with Sue Gray
I only voted in one no-confidence motion. The leader was Iain Duncan Smith, and it was a bit awkward. I…
The Tory party is split on one issue: Boris
‘I can’t put into words how awful this is’ remarks one Tory MP. The party is split not on the…
The Met calls for the redaction of Sue Gray’s report
After a week of speculation about the release of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, its publication has now been complicated…
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…
