UK Politics

How can Parliament discipline the PM?

— The more we understand the rules, the better we all can be at making sure MPs stick to them.

UK Local Elections

Local elections 2022: Your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK.

— What to expect for Labour and Conservatives in England and Wales, as the pressure keeps mounting on Boris Johnson? What about Northern Ireland where Sinn Féin are favourite to become the largest party?

COMMENT

Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false.

— What are the media and journalists pushing the Starmer Beergate story distracting their readers from just a few days before the local elections?

UK Local Elections

Local elections: Survey gives Labour huge lead in London ahead of vote.

— The party has long dominated but the scale of the lead raises questions about why the Conservatives are experiencing such unprecedented unpopularity.

OPINION

Johnson’s removal will not alter the British democratic deficit.

— Anyone chosen by the Tories to replace the PM will have been a party to, and complicit in, the lies, corruption, authoritarianism, and deceit which has characterised the Tory party under Boris Johnson.

Analysis

Democracy undermined: How elections in the UK are changing.

— The new Elections Act weakens the UK’s claim to be a beacon of democracy as 1.1 million people may not cast a vote at future parliamentary elections as a result of this reform.

Justice

Private emails: It’s not the result we hoped for.

— We didn’t get the result we were looking for in our challenge to the UK Government over the use of private email accounts, but we are not giving up.

Brexit

Sometimes, “We told you so” is all that can be said.

— When will Boris Johnson and his many adjutants take responsibility for their lies about Brexit? If ever they do, and until they do, Brexit remains their responsibility, their mess, their guilt, their shame, and their legacy.

UK Politics

Angela Rayner, porn in parliament and a depressing week for British politics.

— Labour’s deputy leader was forced to justify her own response to comments made about her. How the responsibility shifted to Angela Rayner.

What The Experts Say

When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss – Experts.

— The views of experts and health professionals on the consequences of ending free testing, “living with the virus”, the situation with long COVID, and the “herd immunity” myth.

COMMENT

The Prime Minister has brought our democracy into disrepute – it’s time to restore some pride.

— Boris Johnson is the first British Prime Minister to have committed a criminal offence while in office. The country deserves a Prime Minister we can look up to, not look down at.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson dragging the Tory Party into the sewer – Angela Rayner.

— In a series of tweets, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner hits out at “perverted smears” by Tory MPs published in the Mail on Sunday in an attempt to save Boris Johnson’s skin, as she accuses him of “dragging the Conservative Party into the sewer”.

OPINION

Suffocating democracy in a Tupperware tub.

— How Parliamentary democracy in the UK could die, suffocated in the Tupperware box containing the cake that Boris Johnson was allegedly ambushed by.

UK Politics

Partygate: Is Boris Johnson lying?

— The prime minister accepts he broke the law but the question now becomes, did he mislead parliament about it? Either he engaged in immoral behaviour by lying, misrepresented the truth or he didn’t understand his own rules – and must admit to incompetence.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: How declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy.

— A new survey shows a strong link between trusting the prime minister and trusting the government, Parliament and political parties.

Brexit

Post-Brexit Britain is going rotten.

— The moral rot of Boris Johnson’s conduct is part and parcel of a deeper malaise in which Brexit and ‘Brexit COVID’ have created a country that is literally and metaphorically rotting away.