COMMENT
— Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.
COMMENT
— Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.
Conservative Leadership Contest
— Conservative MPs vote in the first round and members in the second.
Analysis
— Boris Johnson breaks from his party in a bitter resignation speech in which there is no sense of taking responsibility and no sense of apology.
Stats
— Boris Johnson has announced his departure from office following a record number of ministerial resignations.
COMMENT
— Boris Johnson’s legacy: There is a sense of a country that is packaging and re-packaging shop-worn goods with a sales pitch that runs to superlatives.
Analysis
— There was a sense of self-aggrandisement about the resignation letters sent by Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak that led to Boris Johnson eventually resigning. Overall, there is so much material in all the letters sent to the PM that we could analyse them for years to come.
COMMENT
— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.
UK Politics
— Boris Johnson’s resignation speech in full and the experts’ opinions.
OPINION
— 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
— 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
— He hardly has any government ministers and his own cabinet tried to force him to resign. What is going on?
OPINION
— 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.
Indyref2
— If the UK continues down paths that further isolate it from the EU and the wider world stage, Scottish attitudes to the Union may harden. Especially because Boris Johnson is personally very unpopular in Scotland.
UK Politics
— 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.
By-Election
— 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.
Analysis
— Kinnock lost two elections as Labour leader. Starmer could learn a lot from his successes and failures.
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