Rishi Sunak

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

The new defence secretary’s extraordinary adaptability means he could have even more roles to play in Sunak’s ailing government...

There is no chance of that happening with the current regime – you won’t hear any government minister say “We took the wrong decisions and we need to put it right.”

Brexiteer Rishi Sunak should get no credit for this Brexit-inflicted farce

Michael Gove tried to paint himself as a green Brexiteer. Now he’s giving builders a green light to pollute

Britain has become a crumbling land of perpetual slums with a moribund prime minister with no plan

As Rishi Sunak’s recent breach of the ministerial code seems to have gone unnoticed, I speculate on what the “prime miniature” may forget to declare next...

Despite what Rishi Sunak says about falling inflation, there is more economic pain to come

The left keep losing at the ballot box because no one is prepared to take on the likes of Lee Anderson by fighting fire with fire

Waiting lists, immigration, the economy… with this lot, it is always someone else's fault

The Tories are losing their loyalists and they’re running straight into Labour’s arms

Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake

The Bibby Stockholm is branded an empty gesture to fix a crisis of the government’s own making

Think tank says Britain faces recession next year and five more years of stagflation

Handshakes alone won't cut it in a world where major security threats, from war to cybersecurity, are global

With their Rwanda project in doubt, the Tories went for Plan B. Now they need a Plan C

The UK's determination to lock people up has already created an overflowing prison system. The prime minister's plans will only make matters worse

While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making

The Tories look exhausted. But Labour seems out of ideas, too. Are we headed for the most depressing election campaign ever?

Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another

The prime minister is on a mission to win over motorists. What else does he have up his sleeve?

The vicious electoral cycle has encouraged the government to falsely promise that they can deliver speedy gains without immediate pain

Rejection of regular EU talks and Horizon dithering prove the PM is running scared of his party’s lunatic fringe

Only Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak can be PM after the next election. If you want to see the back of the Conservatives you need to vote Labour

The owner of Twitter has taken one of the world’s most instantly recognisable brand names and replaced it with something utterly meaningless

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

Sunak's fantasy economics ignore the fact that we need a more skilled workforce and capping arts degree numbers won't solve this

The Conservatives held onto Boris Johnson’s former seat by just 495 votes. That doesn’t mean the constituency can be a yardstick for the next general election result

Across Europe, only Turkey has a higher respiratory death rate than the UK, but the government doesn’t appear to care

It is not just the electorate that has had enough of Rishi Sunak – the vultures are circling around the prime minister from the right flank of his own party

According to a new YouGov poll, just 12% think leaving the European Union has been a success