What Keir Starmer can’t say
The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words?
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Rishi Sunak is already irrelevant
The Conservatives are demoralised. Among Tory MPs, all eyes are on their party’s future.
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Churchill and the quest for greatness
Throughout his career, Britain’s wartime prime minister studied how other leaders – Roosevelt, Attlee, Stalin and Gandhi – exercised power.
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There is an unlikely role model for Keir Starmer: Henry Campbell-Bannerman
The Edwardian Liberal prime minister transformed his party’s fortunes and led a great reforming administration.
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A week is a long time in politics: some notes on short tenures
There’s something fascinating about leaders who’ve barely sat down before they’re moving on once again.
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Boris Johnson’s path back to power is a treacherous one
Getting on the leadership ballot is a challenge for the former PM; seeing off the Labour threat could prove impossible.
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How the Tories lost their way
The new leader will struggle to regain control of a party still in the grip of Boris Johnson’s illiberal populism.
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While Tories bicker, the country faces a heatwave emergency
As “red heat warnings” are issued for much of the UK, climate change is barely on the leadership candidates’ agenda.
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Will Liz Truss be the next prime minister?
From Brexit to front-line photo ops, admirers and critics reveal the many contradictions of Whitehall’s “disrupter-in-chief”.
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A zeal for tax cuts is already defining the Tory leadership race
As more of his rivals launch their campaigns, Rishi Sunak is emerging as a lone voice in favour of recent…
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It’s absurd to say the Conservative Party isn’t ready for a non-white leader
The suggestion that ethnic minority Tories have betrayed their identity is its own form of racism.
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The last days of Boris Johnson
As a disgraced prime minister fights for survival, what does it mean for the Conservative Party – and for Britain?
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Rishi Sunak’s resignation letter heralds the return of austerity
Beware the language of sacrifice from a man wishing to be the next prime minister.
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Boris Johnson’s premiership is over
The Tory MPs who were propping up the Prime Minister have departed en masse today.
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Most Conservative voters now want Boris Johnson to resign
Fifty-four per cent of Tory supporters want Johnson to leave office, a 20-point increase since June.
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Tory MPs are tired of being humiliated by Boris Johnson – and about time
Conservatives have finally recognised that defending the Prime Minister comes at the cost of losing their integrity.
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Boris Johnson’s government has lost all sense of direction – but so have his Tory opponents
On both sides of the no-confidence vote, there is incoherence and confused messaging over what to do next.
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Ben Wallace: the Defence Secretary lining up to be the next Tory leader
The Defence Secretary has been praised for just getting on with the job in a time of war, but he…
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Brian Klaas on why we choose the wrong leaders
The political scientist argues the corruptible are drawn to positions of power – but we help put them there.
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“Three per cent of people in the financial sector are psychopaths.” Manfred Kets de Vries on CEOs
The prolific author discusses overwork and why some companies rot from the top.
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