One reading of Rishi Sunak’s premiership almost a year in is that he has been a deeply unlucky prime minister.  Only an MP since 2015 and a minister since 2018, Sunak remained a relative political...

The Labour Party has said it is drawing up plans to introduce “citizens’ assemblies” which could be used to bypass Whitehall and make key decisions.  Sue Gray, the chief of staff to Labour leader Sir...

“The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.” Even on 28 April 2021, when Keir...

Lee Anderson has been stripped of the Conservative whip after claiming Sadiq Khan had “given our capital away” to Islamists. His comments to GB News on Friday evening caused widespread controversy,...

Politicians are known to hunt and deploy symbols to serve as markers of success. It is why it’s home secretary Suella Braverman’s “dream” and “obsession” to see a plane rise up from UK soil, full of...

One key theme of Rishi Sunak’s premiership so far has been the transformational impact his time in No 10 has had on his personal popularity.

Rwanda’s opposition leader has said that Rwanda is not a safe country for asylum seekers to be sent from the UK. Victoire Imgabire Umuhoza told Sky News this morning that the deal between Rwanda and...

“The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.” Even on 28 April 2021, when Keir...

Consider this take on former prime minister John Major’s beleaguered premiership, reportedly written as the 1997 general election results rolled in: “Nobody elects a divided party” or rewards “weak...

The prime minister must “show leadership” by supporting the privileges committee’s report into Boris Johnson, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The comment comes as MPs are set to debate the findings of the...

The below news article first appeared as a blog post on political mapping and visualisation platform Polimapper‘s website.  Nearly nine in 10 election candidates who have a realistic opportunity of...

Rishi Sunak says he is looking forward to giving evidence to the Covid inquiry — he shouldn’t be. 

These are tantalising times for Liz Truss. Earlier this month, she stole the show at Conservative Party conference with her packed-out fringe event; Nigel Farage, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg were...

It will come a year after Truss delivered the “mini-budget” which preceded her downfall as prime minister.

Credit to the government whips today who found in Conservative MP Giles Watling a willing vessel into which to plant a friendly question about inflation. If the endless anti-government briefing is...

A senior Conservative politician has likened Suella Braverman’s proposed approach to moving the blocked Rwanda plan forward to something “Putin and Xi do”. The comparison to actions by the Russian...

The cartoon murals which appeared at a reception centre for small boats arrivals in Kent were not the “requisite decoration”, a Home Office minister has said.  Minister for migration and borders Lord...

The real story here is far bigger than Braverman: it’s about Sunak’s ailing authority after a year of failing to revive his party’s polling prospects.

Ed Miliband has said that energy firms are bringing in “unearned, unexpected profits” due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine driving up gas prices. Labour’s shadow secretary of state for climate change...

When the history of this Conservative government is written, the year of 2023 will occupy a central place. But not for the reasons Rishi Sunak hoped.  As 2023 began, this next chapter in British...

Sir Alok Sharma has said he will not vote for the government’s oil and gas bill, criticising it as “smoke and mirrors”. Sharma, who served as president of the COP26 Glasgow climate summit in 2021,...

Another week ends with Rishi Sunak’s political standing and authority greatly diminished. The mood amongst Conservative MPs is more febrile, tenser and less certain. The narrative of the party’s...

James Heappey is set to leave his role as armed forces minister after announcing he will be standing down from parliament at the next election. The former soldier is expected to leave his ministerial...

Labour has said Rishi Sunak must focus on resolving junior doctor strikes rather than his row with Boris Johnson over the former PM’s resignation honours list. Mr Sunak claimed earlier this week that...

If this was a bad week for Keir Starmer, then what might a good one look like?  With Westminster occupied by Labour’s £28 billion travails and closely scrutinising the electoral ramifications of its...

Around 14,000 people were prevented from voting in this year’s local elections because they could not produce the required form of photo ID, according to new data from the Electoral Commission. New...

In an otherwise low-energy session, Rishi Sunak lost prime minister’s questions today with a single, ill-judged quip. 

A new poll has Conservative MPs quivering: MRP analysis conducted by YouGov for the Telegraph forecasts a Labour majority of 135 at the next election; Keir Starmer is expected to win 385 seats for...

Live updates from the Commons as Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs; Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan, tells Sky News he is confident the UK economy will be well managed regard...

A senior Conservative MP has said if Rishi Sunak does not take part in Monday’s vote on the privileges committee report on Boris Johnson he will not be “rising to the importance of the occasion”. MPs...

MPs will this evening debate, and likely endorse, the findings of the privileges committee report into Boris Johnson.  But among those not expected to vote in favour of the former PM’s would-be...

Why was Nadine Dorries’ 1,800-word resignation statement so long? The answer, simply, is because it had so much to do. First and most pertinently, it had to righteously rubbish Rishi Sunak’s approach...

The doctor told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he could no longer look NHS colleagues and patients in the eye and stay as a Conservative.

The Labour Party is now more popular than the Conservatives among readers of papers generally considered as sympathetic to the governing party.  A new poll conducted by Survation on behalf of the...

It seems not even the regal opulence of a King’s Speech — the first delivered by a male monarch for more than 70 years — can stem the PM’s political travails. The “Speech from the Throne” was...

A bruising few weeks for the government ends, inevitably, with an uneasy truce. Slowly the speculation about Conservative coups, plots and putsches has subsided. Predictably, the rebels’ latest...

When the history of this Conservative government is written, the year of 2023 will occupy a central place. But not for the reasons Rishi Sunak hoped.  As 2023 began, this next chapter in British...

Ronald Reagan once joked that the most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. Yesterday Britain’s premier, faced with figures pointing to a...

Rishi Sunak began this year with a round of pledge-making in a deliberate effort to contour the terrain on which the next election will be fought.  Promising to halve inflation, grow the economy,...

A shadow cabinet member has today reacted to news that 15 people have boarded the Bibby Stockholm, which she labelled a “floating symbol of catastrophic failure”. Louise Haigh, the shadow transport...

Who would save Westminster if not Chris Bryant? The newly-knighted standards committee chair is on a crusade to clean up politics, seizing on sleaze and railing against those who chose to defend it. ...

The real story here is far bigger than Braverman: it’s about Sunak’s ailing authority after a year of failing to revive his party’s polling prospects.

Steve Barclay has become the latest senior Conservative to distance himself from the home secretary’s claim that rough sleeping is sometimes a “lifestyle choice”. Suella Braverman claimed that rough...

A senior Conservative has urged the prime minister to rethink the government’s international deportations plan with Rwanda, calling it a “knee jerk” reaction which, in its current form, “offends the...

A senior Conservative MP has said that the government’s flagship plan to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda neither represents value for money nor acts as a deterrent. It follows Home Office analysis,...

The parliamentary commissioner for standards has upheld five allegations of bullying and one of sexual misconduct against Conservative MP Peter Bone.  Bone could now be banned from parliament for six...

Recent days have borne witness to a subtle shift in Rishi Sunak’s politics. A punchy performance at prime minister’s questions last week preceded a declaration of war against “sick note culture”; on...

Sunak is a political enigma — at once a tinkering technocrat and a ruthless ideologue, rolled up in a Camera-friendly, soft Cameroon outer shell.

Drip by drip, statement by statement, Conservative MPs are fleeing the green benches of the House of Commons for pastures new.  According to a recent PoliticsHome scoop, departing Tories are being...

Rachel Reeves will blame Brexit and “turmoil” under Liz Truss for landing Britain with a “weak” economy in a speech to representatives in Davos today. In a breakfast meeting hosted by the US invest...

“The Ministerial Code says — and I quote — ‘ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer their resignation’. … I’ll leave it there, for now.” Even on 28 April 2021, when Keir...

A bruising few weeks for the government ends, inevitably, with an uneasy truce. Slowly the speculation about Conservative coups, plots and putsches has subsided. Predictably, the rebels’ latest...

Former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has called Esther McVey’s appointment to the cabinet as a minister without portfolio “tokenistic”.

Drip by drip, statement by statement, Conservative MPs are fleeing the green benches of the House of Commons for pastures new.  According to a recent PoliticsHome scoop, departing Tories are being...

If you, like me, thought the headline story from today’s much-touted morning reshuffle would be the exit of controversialist-in-chief Suella Braverman, you were very wrong indeed. Rishi Sunak has run...

The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, sign-up for free here and never miss this daily briefing. Over the coming days, the release of new economic figures...

Robert Halfon has left his role as education minister after announcing he will be standing down from parliament at the next election. In a letter addressed to the prime minister and posted to...

Who would save Westminster if not Chris Bryant? The newly-knighted standards committee chair is on a crusade to clean up politics, seizing on sleaze and railing against those who chose to defend it. ...

It is the essential Sunakian dilemma: go too far and alienate the Conservative Party’s moderate elements — the vast swathe of MPs who fell behind the PM in consecutive leadership contests last year....

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government’s flagship deportations plan is unlawful in a verdict delivered moments ago.

A week is a long time in politics. This one began with revelations that Covid inquiry chair Baroness Hallett was requesting Boris Johnson’s pandemic-era WhatsApps and ended with the government suing...

There’s a new right-wing institute, soaked in muscular traditionalism and religiosity, on the Westminster block. Meet the innocuously titled Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, a self-styled...