sue gray

Boris Johnson’s guilt

28 May 2022 9:00 am

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

28 May 2022 9:00 am

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

28 May 2022 9:00 am

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

5 February 2022 9:00 am

In answers to questions following his statement in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson let drop an interesting statistic. He…

Boris must go!

2 February 2022 12:50 am

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

1 February 2022 4:20 am

Ahead of the publication of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, there had been talk that the police investigation — which…

Johnson's defence deteriorates

1 February 2022 3:50 am

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

29 January 2022 9:00 am

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

29 January 2022 9:00 am

‘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

28 January 2022 7:52 pm

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

27 January 2022 12:09 am

Given the extraordinarily low expectations, Prime Minister’s Questions went reasonably well for Boris Johnson today. That is partly because it…