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Adam BoultonThe Times |
Our elected representatives were considered in their debate of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. It really was the House of Commons at its...
Britain’s new Labour Government is doing what it can to warm up the old entente cordiale. As part of Sir Keir Starmer’s learn-on-the-job approach...
With the House of Windsor in a period of transition since the accession of King Charles III, three i writers consider the future of...
Jonathan Powell is the Prime Minister’s new National Security Adviser. It is a return to the heart of government for one of New Labour’s biggest...
“I think we are going to have a very big victory today,” Donald Trump told reporters in Florida as he came off the campaign trail for the last...
In 2018 a nervous prime minister Theresa May made sure president Donald Trump was granted the ultimate honour of a state visit to the UK. Trump...
We Brits care a lot about the US presidential election. Perhaps too much, after the complaint by the Trump campaign this week alleging “foreign...
Only around one Briton in five wants Donald Trump to win the presidential election, according to surveys. Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Greens are...
When parties lose elections, it takes them a long time to come back to the centre ground, where British general elections are usually won. To borrow a...
The most significant person for the future of the Conservative Party was not at last week’s annual conference. He is not one of the candidates in...
“I can’t even remember their names. Who are they? They’re complete nobodies… Everyone’s forgetting something here, it doesn’t matter a...
Labour activists are making their way to Liverpool for the annual party conference in a downbeat mood less than 80 days after Sir Keir Starmer’s...
The Huw Edwards story is a sad one. Above all for his victims: the children “violated and abused”, as the judge explained, for the indecent images...
Liberal Democrats gathering for their conference in Brighton this weekend are as stunned as everyone else by their record-breaking performance in the...
Election TV debates are getting an increasingly bad reputation here and in the US. The channels staging them appear more interested in advertising...
Tempers are fraying in this country over the Israel-Palestinian conflict – and the usual suspects are fanning the flames. This morning, Boris...
Sir Keir Starmer campaigned under the slogan “change”, and he has wasted little time altering the fabric of Government. An “unsettling”...
As Russell Crowe once roared in Gladiator: “Are you not entertained?” Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has got off to a reassuringly boring...
Sir Keir Starmer has spent the first week of his post-election honeymoon speed-dating foreign leaders. His list of partners is impressive too. Within...
“We don’t want to lose you but we think you ought to go.” Politics on both sides of the Atlantic is putting a new spin on the old First World...
Love him or hate him – and most people have strong opinions about him – Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of our age....
Labour does not win general elections often. As this year’s campaign chief Pat McFadden admits, characteristically, “We usually lose.” Nothing...
The latest betting scandal engulfing the Conservative party is a disgrace. It exposes once again that standards at Westminster are lower than those in...
Change was the only word on the front cover of the Labour manifesto and it was posted all around Keir Starmer for his launch speech. But there was no...
Those hoping they had seen the last of Michael Gove when he announced he would not be standing in the general election were soon disappointed. Days...
Angela Rayner is having a great week. For months her opponents in politics and the press have revelled in allegations about her properties – a clear...
Cock-a-doodle-doo! The dust is being blown off dressing-up boxes and any minute now a Tory worker dressed in a chicken suit will likely be strutting...
Rishi Sunak’s 4 July general election falls by the smallest margin – the first Thursday – into his second half of the year guidance. Will he be...
It will be late on Saturday before we get the full picture of the results from yesterday’s elections in England and Wales. Voters have become used...
Ever since the massive but ineffective Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel last weekend, Britain, the United States and other allies have been...
When the chronicle of this Conservative Government is written at last, Michael Gove will be an important, if enigmatic, character in it. Over the past...
“You show me yours and I’ll show you mine”. Angela Rayner gives as good as she gets. That was her typically down-to-earth reply to...
Global Britain is a misnomer. Our Brexiteer Prime Minister isn’t bothered. Rishi Sunak is no longer required to attend the regular EU councils with...
“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza”. With the opening words of his victory speech at 3.45am this morning the old pro George Galloway propelled the...
Invited into No 10 for a cosy chat, the Rt Hon David Cameron, ex MP, was as surprised as everyone else last November when the Prime Minister...
Rishi Sunak’s publicly declared “working assumption” that the general election will be in the second half of this year tells us three things. He...