Boris Johnson’s survival will doom the Scottish Tories
Douglas Ross’s abysmal handling of the Conservatives’ leadership crisis is a gift to Scottish Labour.
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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.
The Tories are heading for a repeat of the Brexit wars
Boris Johnson’s argument that rewriting the Northern Ireland Protocol complies with international law is unravelling.
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You might think Tory MPs are bad, but you haven’t seen Republicans
The Capitol riot was apparently not enough of a reason to challenge Donald Trump.
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The Tories remain the prisoners of market ideology
Boris Johnson’s party wills statist ends but it refuses to commit to statist means.
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PMQs: Is Keir Starmer wise or weak?
The Labour leader is rarely ever judged to have skewered Boris Johnson, in part because he rarely tries.
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Boris Johnson’s Britain stands as an international epitome of visionless drift
The prime minister resembles Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former PM, who offered boosterish posturing in place of substance.
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No 10 advisers look to Truss
Your weekly pick of the gossip from Westminster.
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Jeremy Hunt: “It’s a rabbit hole to try and change how the NHS is structured”
The former health secretary and 2019 Tory leadership candidate on Blue Wall Toryism, health policy and social care.
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Leader: Beyond the cynicism of Boris Johnson
The UK needs more than a new prime minister: it needs constitutional reform.
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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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The Tories’ fatal attraction to Boris Johnson
As in 1978, we are approaching the end of an era as the Conservatives flounder before events too big to…
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Boris Johnson and “Partygate” dominate probe into Sunak’s cost-of-living package
Ahead of the no confidence vote, the Chancellor faced difficult questions about the Prime Minister.
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Which Tory MPs rebelled against Boris Johnson?
A comprehensive list of Conservative MPs that have called for the Prime Minister to go and what they said about…
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Boris Johnson did worse than Theresa May and John Major
The last two times a Conservative prime minister faced a vote of confidence they won the support of more of…
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Boris Johnson wants to take his party (and the country) down with him
The Conservative Corbyn has nowhere to go after last night’s no-confidence vote.
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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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Boris Johnson is far from safe
The Prime Minister could soon face another no-confidence vote, say 1922 committee insiders.
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Boris Johnson is in real trouble
The strength of feeling against the Prime Minister has steadily worsened as wavering Tory rebels have finally acted.
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How does a no-confidence vote actually work?
The support of 54 Tory MPs is needed to trigger a confidence vote on Boris Johnson’s leadership.
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Why Tory MPs aren’t as good at regicide as they like to think
If past no-confidence votes are anything to go by, they won’t get rid of Boris Johnson.
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