Leader: Searching for new ideas
Faced with a profound economic and social crisis, Westminster politics appears devoid of solutions.
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.
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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We’re all extras trapped in the Boris and Keir movie farce
The Prime Minister and Labour leader’s personal dislike causes bad strategy and does voters a disservice.
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Is Jeremy Hunt Johnson’s most dangerous Tory rival?
As Hunt hints at a second leadership bid, he may emerge as the viable alternative many Conservatives are looking for.
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Can Boris Johnson’s pact with Sweden and Finland compensate for his problems at home?
The Prime Minister has signed mutual security with the two countries due imminently to join Nato – but the economic…
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Leader: Keir Starmer is under pressure
Britain needs – and deserves – more than a cautious, technocratic Labour prime minister.
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Levelling Up Minister Neil O’Brien on the Prime Minister’s uncertain future
Neil O'Brien on regional development, the "changed" Conservative Party, and whether levelling up will outlast Boris Johnson
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Politicians are paying the price for their own absurd Covid rules
The grimmest discrepancy isn’t between Johnson and Starmer, it’s between them and us.
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Honourable Keir Starmer is nothing like our Great Misleader
The Labour leader’s pledge to resign if fined contrasts with the shameless Boris Johnson.
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Does Boris Johnson just not get it?
We have forgotten how out of touch he is with ordinary people’s money worries.
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Angela Rayner’s Diary: “The smear that I am behind Mailgate shows how desperate Tory MPs are”
The Labour deputy leader says she hopes experiences like hers don’t put young women off public life.
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Boris Johnson is leading a uniquely rotten Tory party
Our rogue prime minister cannot crack down on misconduct within his party because he is guilty of so much of…
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The born-to-rule Oxford Tories
Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to…
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Boris Johnson can no longer take the voters for fools
The public have rumbled the Prime Minister – his populist gimmicks and rabble-rousing rhetoric simply won’t work anymore.
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QUIZ! Which class are these celebrities, according to the British public?
Find out whether you view the social class of 25 famous figures in the same way as other voters.
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Don’t try to take on the Church of England, Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister’s attacks draw attention to Justin Welby speaking Christian truth to cynical power.
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Leader: The rise of the know-nothing right
The Conservatives have become a party that proudly brandishes its ignorance and prejudice.
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