Boris Johnson still does not understand his great betrayal of ordinary people
The brave and dignified patients I encountered during the pandemic are the polar opposite of the Prime Minister.
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Why Liz Truss is most likely the next Tory leader
The Foreign Secretary’s politics are shared by the Tory membership and she appears hungrier for the role than her rivals.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, Hannah White, Viola Davis and JL Heilbron
His Name is George Floyd by Samuels and Olorunnipa, Held in Contempt by White, Finding Me by Davis and The…
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I enjoy parties, but I don’t need them like Boris Johnson needs them
The Prime Minister desperately seeks affection, and one of the reasons people give parties is to make others like them.
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Boris Johnson’s options are narrowing as the Tory mood shifts
The former party leader William Hague has said that a no confidence vote could be called as soon as next…
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Downing Street’s partygate lawlessness was a threat to public security
It is bizarre that every business understood the need to limit contact to avoid being paralysed by infections, but the…
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How much danger is Boris Johnson in?
If a confidence vote does happen, the Prime Minister’s authority will be shot even if he wins it.
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Boris Johnson’s Tory enablers should never be forgiven
Conservative MPs knew from the moment they chose Johnson as their leader that he was unfit for office.
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Boris Johnson has remade the British government in his own shambolic image
This government, like the man who leads it, has no higher mission than to win the next election.
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Of course the only person to resign over partygate is a woman
Women will learn from Allegra Stratton: never apologise.
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A government that mistreats cleaners can’t tackle the cost of living crisis
The government needs to understand the reality for people at the lowest end of the income spectrum. Boris Johnson’s clearly…
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Sue Gray report pulls distrust in UK politicians down to expenses scandal levels
Boris Johnson’s partygate scandal has fomented a deep apathy among voters.
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We are being gaslit by Boris Johnson’s government
Faced with so many untruths and contradictions around partygate, our anger quickly turns to confusion and then exhaustion.
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Will the Sue Gray report finally unseat Boris Johnson?
The Prime Minister is struggling to hang on to party support, but the Tories are yet to find a suitable…
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Boris Johnson has proved once again that he has no shame
Any other Prime Minister would have resigned long ago. It will be up to voters to remove Johnson – and…
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s four-day work week
It transpires Rees Mogg takes no official papers back to Somerset for long weekends
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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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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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