Analysis
— If Boris Johnson is not replaced by a new leader, backbench Conservative MPs would be well advised to start brushing up their CVs in preparation for life after Westminster.
Analysis
— If Boris Johnson is not replaced by a new leader, backbench Conservative MPs would be well advised to start brushing up their CVs in preparation for life after Westminster.
Brexit
— Partygate doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the end of the populist politics that underpinned and flowed from Brexit, still less of Brexit itself. It may not even mean the end of Johnson, whose fate remains precariously in the balance.
Downing Street Parties
— The investigation into Downing Street parties has no power to bring the Prime Minister down. But it may still provide the ammunition that brings Boris Johnson’s government to an end.
History
— First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
UK Politics
— Everything you need to know about Conservative leadership contests.
Downing Street Parties
— We’ve got a Prime Minister who set the rules on COVID-19, then repeatedly reminded the public what those rules were and why they had to be followed, now telling us that nobody actually told him what the very rules were.
OPINION
— At this point in time, it might be easier for Boris Johnson to list the days when there wasn’t a booze-up in Downing Street.
Downing Street Parties
— Boris Johnson’s arguments fall down in several key ways. A refresher on what the law and guidelines were at that time.
Downing Street Parties
— There is a clear route out of the Boris Johnson problem for Tory MPs – namely to remove the prime minister and hope for a recovery in the polls by electing a new leader.
Downing Street Parties
— Boris Johnson is sort of sorry – but the caveats are key. There is little doubt that his apology only occurred because the PM had no other choice – the evidence was too strong. But we can be sure that he will stick to this argument like glue.
Analysis
— Backbenchers are rattling their sabres and a brutal by-election loss has made it all so much worse for Boris Johnson.
Analysis
— The libertarian Tory MPs’ revolt over new public health restrictions comes in stark contrast to their support of other draconian laws that violate human rights. We have rights by virtue of the fact that we are human, not simply because we are good citizens.
OPINION
— The UK is now at that critical point where it is about to slide into full-blown authoritarianism, presided over by an entitled clown.
Analysis
— Plans by the government to regularly overturn court decisions are the perfect way to avoid accountability, undermine independent scrutiny and weaken the role of the courts in holding the government to account.
Downing Street Parties
— The aesthetics of Allegra Stratton’s mock press conference made the revelations coming out of it so much worse.
Analysis
— What’s behind the appointments to Labour’s front bench?
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