How to free the UK from Boris Johnson’s zombie government
There has never been a more urgent time for progressive parties to jointly commit to proportional representation.
ByBoris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as “Boris Johnson”, is a British politician. He is the former mayor of London and the former prime minister of the United Kingdom between July 2019 and September 2022, and the former leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson studied at Eton College and then read classics at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He has also worked as a journalist with different publications, such as the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on the former prime minister here.
PMQs: Keir Starmer reminds Boris Johnson that Sue Gray isn’t his only problem
While partygate dominates, the Labour leader used his six questions to pile pressure on the Prime Minister over the cost-of-living…
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Is the Sue Gray report damning enough for Tories to turn on Boris Johnson?
The civil servant’s findings will only lead to a leadership contest if it serves the self-interest of Conservative MPs.
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Courts, rivers, teeth: No 10 has shed its responsibilities
This government once had a big idea but, hampered by the pandemic and its own melodrama, it has become directionless.
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Blue Wall Australians voted for climate action; Boris Johnson should take note
Conservatives in the UK and Australia have relied on the same tactics to win power. But Australia’s election results show…
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Why didn’t Boris Johnson fear another partygate photos leak?
You hardly need to be Garry Kasparov to calculate that, when you throw people under the bus, there is a…
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The Afghanistan evacuation was another scandalous failure by Boris Johnson
A spectacularly damning new report by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee cuts through the Prime Minister’s lies.
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How dangerous are the partygate photos for Boris Johnson?
The Prime Minister’s popularity has already taken a severe hit – and worse could lie ahead.
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Sue Gray: the civil servant who could bring down Boris Johnson
The civil servant once nicknamed “deputy god” for her power around Whitehall is expected to publish her report into “partygate” as soon…
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Boris Johnson hasn’t got the “big calls” right
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine all reveal further failures by the Prime Minister, not successes.
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Partygate is over – and Boris Johnson is safe again
The Prime Minister’s avoidance of a second police fine makes the prospect of a Tory revolt against him even more…
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Why Boris Johnson can’t escape responsibility for 126 fines
The Met might have bought his lies – but the court of public opinion begs to differ.
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Will Rishi Sunak U-turn and impose a windfall tax on energy companies?
The lack of a plan to tackle the cost of living reveals Boris Johnson’s failure to grasp the magnitude of…
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Ranked: every patronising Conservative cost-of-living crisis survival tip
Governing party politicians have time and again made gaffes relating to rising bills and prices.
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Andrew Bailey’s apocalypse
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Leader: Searching for new ideas
Faced with a profound economic and social crisis, Westminster politics appears devoid of solutions.
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Why G7 leaders, including the UK, risk being complicit in a global famine
The world’s richest countries can stop millions of people dying of starvation — but only if they choose to act.
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Did the UK perform better than thought on Covid-19?
The circumstances were unenviable but to shrug and say ministers “did their best” is to excuse the inexcusable.
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Can the UK really afford a trade war with the EU?
Threats by Boris Johnson’s government to abandon the Northern Ireland protocol are likely to be mere posturing.
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Boris Johnson’s government is morally and intellectually bankrupt
The only strategy the Prime Minister has left is to stoke division and stir up the Tory base against imagined…
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