Conservative Leadership Contest
— Will Conservative Party members choose their preferred leader to become the new Prime Minister or the candidate who is more popular with the wider public?
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Conservative Leadership Contest
— Will Conservative Party members choose their preferred leader to become the new Prime Minister or the candidate who is more popular with the wider public?
Conservative Leadership Contest
— Some leadership contenders seem to have big plans for a smaller state.
UK Politics
— What exactly was “Johnsonism” beyond a few slogans such as “levelling up” and the scandals that attracted the attention? Behind Boris Johnson’s buffoonish exterior, the quick wit and wearisome repartee, lay very little.
Ukrainian Refugees
— Only 9,900 Ukrainian children have been offered school places in England as their families left their homes and resettled in the UK. If a child is denied a place at a school, families need to know they can appeal the decision.
Conservative Leadership Contest
— LBC presenter James O’Brien explains everything that needs to be understood about the current Conservative Leadership contestants and their failure to recognise that Brexit is an escalating national tragedy.
Fact-Check
— Fact-check: The ministers’ revolt against Boris Johnson wasn’t anti-democratic – it’s representative democracy in action. As for his claim to have a mandate from the people, it is misguided.
Analysis
— The scandal that brought his downfall wasn’t Boris Johnson’s first. Witty and charming to some, but dishonest and untrustworthy to others, he leaves his country and party very divided, as well as the legacy of his scandals.
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.
Refugees
— A heartening 70% of British voters want to allow Ukrainians into the UK but only 50% feel the same way about Afghans. And the difference is even starker among those who vote Conservative.
Immigration
— A year on from the deadline to the EU Settlement Scheme, we are all now living under the Home Office’s hostile environment.
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.
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