The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role

In October 2020 the footballer Marcus Rashford vented his despair at MPs voting down proposals to extend free school meals during holidays. He was not the only one. Christian Wakeford, then Conserv...

The security services withdrew an assessment that granting a peerage to a Russian businessman posed a national security risk after Boris Johnson intervened. The prime minister pushed ahead with the...

This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Mark FullbrookLiz Truss’s most senior adviser has been interviewed by FBI agents about an alleged criminal

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound

When The Sunday Times reported a woman’s claim that she had been raped by the Tory former minister, he sued for libel. Four years on, after he was jailed for sex offences, he has dropped the case....

On March 17, 2020, Boris Johnson learnt that British intelligence had warned against granting a peerage to his close friend Evgeny Lebedev on national security

Liz Truss overruled officials to demand they approve a £1,400 lunch with a foreign diplomat at a Tory donor’s struggling gentlemen’s club.The foreign secretary

The peer ‘would have quit the House of Lords had he known it would stop him claiming non-residency’

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The Prince of Wales accepted a £1 million payment from the family of Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times can reveal. Prince Charles secured the money from Bakr

Downing Street today became embroiled in the “biggest lobbying scandal in a generation” after new evidence emerged of attempts by David Cameron to influence the

No 10 refused to say if Rishi Sunak had confidence in Sir Gavin Williamson last night after it emerged that threatening and expletive-laden texts were sent to a

The picture instantly conveys the mismatch between his public persona and his behaviour behind closed doors. David Warburton, the Conservative MP for Somerton &

The Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing €1 million in cash from a controversial Qatari politician, The Sunday Times can reveal. It was one of three lots of cash, totalling €3 million,...

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Leaked Cabinet Office memo warned then prime minister to stop consulting a friend days before he was appointed BBC chairman

Matt Hancock has failed to declare that he appointed his closest friend from university, who is the director of a lobbying firm, as an adviser — and later gave

This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Mark FullbrookTwo of the prime minister’s most senior advisers joined No 10 on secondment from her chief o

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Shortly before Christmas, a photograph taken in the Downing Street garden emerged that was felt by many to epitomise a prevailing attitude at the heart of gover

Paul Maynard was confronted by a local Conservative activist over misuse of funds. Now the expenses watchdog has stepped in

Matt Hancock faces an investigation after using a personal email account instead of an official address during the pandemic in a breach of government guidelines

"That was then, this is now," says royal source, after claims the prince's charity accepted millions in cash.

A former Tory councillor who bought a country estate after being awarded £276m in government contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) has added a holi

Luciana Berger has rejoined the Labour Party after Sir Keir Starmer apologised for the “disgusting” antisemitism and death threats she endured under Jeremy Corbyn and praised her “principled and...

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A mass shooting in his neighborhood. Condolence calls. Funeral after funeral. And a clash with the president.

Randox, the diagnostics company that paid Owen Paterson as a lobbyist, won a £133 million Covid-19 testing contract days before government officials concluded t

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Door after door in Britain has been opened for Evgeny Lebedev, all the way to the House of Lords. Who has opened them, and why?