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Next month, Keir Starmer is expected to lead his party to victory in the local elections. The Tories are forecast to lose about half of their...
When Rishi Sunak first unveiled his plans for a smoke-free generation, Downing Street was clear it would be a free vote. Such are the divisions in the...
Next month’s local elections will be the last significant encounter with voters before a general election, likely later this year. So far, the talk...
Next month’s local elections will be the last significant encounter with voters before a general election, likely later this year. So far, the talk...
When Rishi Sunak first unveiled his plans for a smoke-free generation, Downing Street was clear it would be a free vote. Such are the divisions in the...
All eyes are on the Middle East this week following Iran’s decision on Saturday night to launch around 300 drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at...
Buckle up. Next week brings with it the release of Liz Truss’s new book Ten Years to Save the West, and with it a round of publicity interviews...
The row over Angela Rayner’s tax affairs is becoming more serious. This morning, Greater Manchester Police have launched an investigation into the...
The logic behind Rishi Sunak’s decision to make David Cameron foreign secretary was that he would be a ‘big beast’ on the world stage and...
A senior government minister under fire. A drip-drip feed of revelations. A prime minister under pressure to act. Only bad options if they do. This...
When David Cameron touched down in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for a meeting with the former president this week, his mind was on...
David Cameron is stateside today as the Foreign Secretary tries to muster up support for the US to send aid to Ukraine. While Cameron plans to discuss...
Another week, another development in the row over Angela Rayner’s tax affairs. The deputy Labour leader is facing questions over whether she broke...
When Simon Clarke called for Rishi Sunak to go at the beginning of the year, it failed to take off. The most helpful intervention was Dame Priti...
When the last Tory government fell, the famous question after election night was: ‘Were you up for Portillo?’ Were you awake in the small hours...
The resignation of defence minister James Heappey from the Government this week along with education minister Rob Halfon offered little in the way of...
At 8.30 a.m. each morning, Keir Starmer holds a meeting with his inner circle to go over the business of the day. Once, these meetings were mainly...
It was a scene that would not be out of place in a dystopian movie: “London, a city steeped in history but tonight its ancient streets bear witness...
In recent years, Tory MPs have become accustomed to bad polling. There has been no shortage of surveys and focus groups to suggest the Conservative...
After weeks of speculation over the Princess of Wales’s health since she underwent abdominal surgery in January, Kate Middleton has this evening...
The Tory racism row looks set to run on for some time. West Yorkshire Police today launched an investigation into alleged racist comments made by top...
There’s an old Russian joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist in Moscow. The pessimist believes that things cannot get any...
On Wednesday night, Rishi Sunak urged his party to ‘dig deep and fight’ in the face of difficult polling. The Prime Minister will be hoping this...
After a bruising few weeks for Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister this evening appeared before the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers to make his case....
The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to step down as Ireland’s prime minister and as the leader of his party, Fine Gael. In an announcement this lunchtime...
Rishi Sunak goes into the week hoping it will be better than the one that came before. Last week, the Prime Minister suffered one of his worst weeks...
Could Penny Mordaunt lead the Tories into the election? This is the talk this weekend after several papers splashed on a push by Conservative MPs on...
Rishi Sunak has finally confirmed what most MPs already knew: there won’t be a May general election. Speaking to ITV News West Country on Thursday...
Michael Gove’s extremism crackdown has been the talk of the Tory party for weeks now, with three former Conservative home secretaries warning ahead...
On Monday night Tories gathered on the Terrace Pavilion at parliament for the 1922 Committee’s spring reception, to which every backbencher was...
The Tory party is on high alert this week. Rishi Sunak’s critics are talking up the idea that letters of no confidence are slowly going in. He has...
Tory MP Lee Anderson has defected to Reform UK. Speaking at an impromptu press conference this morning, the former deputy Tory party chairman – who...
Rishi Sunak is keen to tell anyone who will listen that Labour has no plan, while. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer’s go-to chat these days is to brand the...
The tributes are pouring in for Theresa May after the former prime minister announced that she will be stepping down at the next election. In a...
Ahead of the Budget, Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt met MPs for drinks in the Prime Minister’s parliamentary office to try to temper expectations. The...
This week, it’s hard to turn on the television without coming across a Labour politician talking about a May election. Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s...
Another day, another damning poll for the Tory party. This time it’s a survey by Ipsos for the Evening Standard that finds the Conservatives have...
Budget day is approaching and what was once seen as a window of opportunity is now being talked up as a moment of dread. Jeremy Hunt has gone from...
When the news first spread on Friday that Rishi Sunak was planning a speech outside 10 Downing Street, the Westminster rumour mill went into...
Rishi Sunak has just appeared on the steps of Downing Street to give a speech on the need to take action after ‘a shocking increase in extremist...
George Galloway is back. The former Labour MP has triumphed in the Rochdale by-election, taking the seat from Starmer’s party with a majority of...
Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump’s former director of communications, has a phrase that sums up his old boss’s effect on political debate: ‘the...
When GB News first launched in the summer of June 2021, it quickly divided opinion. Before a single show had aired, there were warnings from figures...
In a week’s time, Jeremy Hunt will stand up at the despatch box and unveil the Spring Budget. This event has long been seen by Tory MPs as a key...
It’s day five of the Lee Anderson debacle and the row shows no signs of abating. Rishi Sunak is having to defend from both sides his decision to...
Rishi Sunak withdrew the whip from Lee Anderson on Saturday over his claim that Sadiq Khan had ‘given our capital away’ to Islamists, who he...
Lee Anderson has been suspended from the Conservative party following comments he made about Sadiq Khan. The former deputy party chairman used an...