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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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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Who could replace Liz Truss as prime minister?
Could Boris Johnson make a comeback?
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Liz Truss survived PMQs, but all she has done is buy herself time
The ashen faces of Conservative MPs today suggest they know it's a matter of when she goes, not if.
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Liz Truss’s feeble cabinet proves that Westminster is enticing the wrong people
In the 1980s the Tory benches were crammed with MPs who had run businesses – but now they’re full of…
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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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How corporate Britain is forecasting Keir Starmer in Downing Street
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Jess Phillips’ Diary: An alcohol-free Labour conference and trickle-up economics
For the first time in my political career I feel that Labour is now a united, fighting force. Three cheers…
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“Elizabeth the Great”: MPs pay tribute to the Queen
Liz Truss, Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson and Theresa May led parliament in memorial.
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Liz Truss and the cost of winning
In her campaign, she told party members what they wanted to hear. The new prime minister’s troubles are only just…
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Liz Truss’s new cabinet is the most right-wing for a generation
Few One Nation Tories or those close to Rishi Sunak have yet been offered jobs in the Prime Minister’s team.
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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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Leader: A state of emergency
If Liz Truss enters No 10 next week, she is expected to bring the Brexit ultras with her and establish…
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A Tory party that’s out of ideas will soon find itself out of power
Conservatives must believe there are conservative answers to the problems Britain faces. Why aren’t we hearing them?
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What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne
Conservative class warfare is out of date.
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Boris Johnson’s resignation won’t end the Conservatives’ brand problems
The post-Johnson Tory party may struggle to adjust to an era in which the economic debate has shifted leftwards.
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Shameless Tories scramble to join Johnson’s sinking ship
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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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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Boris Johnson’s refusal to resign is a shameful final disservice to the country
Every government action will be dictated by his battle to survive – including tax cuts fuelling inflation during a cost-of-living…
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Leader: Boris Johnson’s departure alone is not enough
The UK needs transformative political, constitutional and economic change.
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