The madness that has entered the Conservative soul started with Brexit
Liz Truss’s leadership was the product of a party that has become addicted to ideological fervour.
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.
Political friendship is a liability – just ask Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng
Cramming your cabinet full of chums is tempting but it is a trap.
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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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Who could replace Liz Truss as prime minister?
Could Boris Johnson make a comeback?
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Liz Truss’s resignation shows parliamentary democracy is working, not failing
Until we get our say in a general election, MPs are performing their constitutional duty to judge and penalise failure.
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How Boris Johnson comes back
It’s late 2023. Things are looking bleak. The Tory party turns to its proven vote-winner.
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Liz Truss has proved to be the worst Tory prime minister yet
The PM has completed the process begun by her three predecessors of reducing Britain to a global laughing stock.
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How Liz Truss became the most unpopular prime minister in history
Only 10 per cent of voters hold a favourable view of Truss, while 80 per cent have an unfavourable one.
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Will Liz Truss really drop Boris Johnson-era policies?
The PM has hinted at a rethink of her predecessor’s policy commitments. As parliament returns, which are at risk?
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“We are uniquely unprotected” from our own government: Adam Wagner on the Emergency State
The self-confessed activist lawyer believes Covid legislation showed how vulnerable human rights are in the UK.
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Must the Tories choose between Liz Truss and Boris Johnson?
The question that troubles Conservatives as they ponder regicide is whether the former prime minister could yet return.
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We can’t consign Boris Johnson to history yet
Andrew Gimson’s biography of the former prime minister describes a man who can pull off a miracle. With the Tories…
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Can Liz Truss survive?
The PM is marching on in defiant hope – but the ruthless Conservative machine may eject her if there is…
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Michael Winterbottom’s This England is odd and oddly repellent
Kenneth Branagh has captured Boris Johnson’s striding stoop and gibbon arm-swing, but this series is perhaps too kind to him.
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Martin Rees: “This could be our last century on Earth”
The astrophysicist and Astronomer Royal reflects on the threats facing humanity.
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Michael Winterbottom on Boris Johnson, Covid-19 and his new TV series This England
The director explains why he wanted to make something about the pandemic “now, as soon as possible after it happened”.
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As the nation mourns, Team Truss plays up the PM’s role in proceedings
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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It’s out with the old – as toadying Tories try to get in with the new
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Boris Johnson is about to become the Tories’ Meghan Markle
Removing his title will not diminish his influence: it will expand it.
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Boris Johnson is as resentful and self-pitying as ever
The Prime Minister still views his defenestration as an injustice, one he may want to rectify.
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