OPINION

Get Borexit done.

— As the two words “I resign” have not crossed his lips and he is carrying on as though nothing had happened in a very disturbing way... Has Boris Johnson actually resigned?

UK Politics

Boris Johnson: Four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading.

— The prime minister’s personal popularity has plummeted but the people who decide how to replace him still can’t agree on a successor.

Analysis

Boris Johnson: A terminal case of hubris syndrome.

— He hardly has any government ministers and his own cabinet tried to force him to resign. What is going on?

OPINION

Pass the popcorn: The Tories are in meltdown.

— Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid and others resigning now have been complicit in Boris Johnson’s trashing the standards expected in public office. They are as bad as he is. He is their creature.

Justice

New Met Police legal action will get to the truth about the PM’s Partygate.

— The public have a right to know what really went on inside the Partygate investigation.

OPINION

Well, we are the people and we say yes.

— Boris Johnson and the UK Supreme Court can say no if they want to... Well, we say yes, and we are the people.

UK Politics

Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections: Even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election.

— By-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield will have shaken some Conservative MPs. If he survives until next year, Boris Johnson will need credible local election results.

Brexit

Brexit is shaming Britain.

— Professor Chris Grey’s detailed analysis of the NIPB in relation to the internal politics of the Tory Party and the wider politics of Brexit. But no amount of analysis can ignore the shame it brings to Britain.

By-Election

Tiverton and Honiton by-election: Rural communities are itching for the chance to cast a protest vote.

— The Liberal Democrats think they can take the seat from Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in the wake of partygate – and longstanding resentment towards the political class is fuelling their optimism.

UK Politics

After years of breaking the rules, Boris Johnson must now hope his MPs won’t change the only one keeping him in office.

— The Conservatives have always been happy to rewrite their own rules when it suits them. Rest assured they will eject any leader – no matter who they are – if they feel it benefits the party and its members.

Brexit

Brexit is stuck, but is the secret coming out?

— They lied and cheated and then lied about lying and cheating. Doing so enabled them to say that they had achieved what critics had said was impossible, although they had done no such thing.

UK Politics

The tactics Tory rebels could use to derail Boris Johnson.

— Boris Johnson wants to move on to other government businesses, but the PM’s opponents in the Conservative Party (and there are many) could bog down and/or derail his legislative agenda to contest his leadership.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson never took full control of the Tory party – uniting it now seems impossible.

— A strong party leader is both in control of the organisation of their party and can set and articulate the party’s priorities. With 41% of his MPs united against him, Boris Johnson is unlikely to last long – or get much done if he does.

Analysis

Conservative Party – Who are the rebels and why do they want Boris Johnson gone?

— The Tory party is a ‘broad church’ with many factions. And many of them are unimpressed with the prime minister at the moment. Tory tensions are exacerbated through the ideological incoherence of Johnson himself.

Analysis

After the confidence vote, what now for ‘Big Dog’?

— Politics professor Jon Tonge was pretty much spot on with his prediction for the result of the no-confidence vote against Boris Johnson. Here’s how he calculated the result and what might happen next.

OPINION

The ‘greased piglet’ oinks again (for the time being).

— Although Boris Johnson has yet again slipped through the cracks, the Conservative Party is now deeply divided and polls suggest that they could be headed for two catastrophic defeats in the Wakefield and Honiton by-elections.