Category : Political

PM's Operation Avoid Trump goes off almost without a hitch | Marina Hyde

Apart from one unguarded moment at the palace, Boris Johnson followed his minder’s orders to the letterGiven the event was potentially awkward for him, it’s amazing Boris Johnson didn’t send his dad to the Nato summit in his place. One of these days...

Smug in the west: but even the Tories steer clear of Trump at Nato

The ‘leader of the free world’ manages to reduce Nato geopolitics to suburban real-estate rivalryThe last time a US president visited the UK at Christmas, it was in a Richard Curtis film and Hugh Grant was the prime minister. This week, real-life Hug...

In this climate, how does Boris Johnson not melt with shame? | Marina Hyde

The prime minister’s reputation sank to new lows this week, despite – or because of – his dad’s attempts to helpBoris Johnson’s big contribution to reducing plastic consumption is not wearing condoms. Or as Gavin Williamson put it this morning: “Bori...

Jo Swinson refuses to get down and dirty with Boris Johnson | Marina Hyde

Lib Dem leader lacks the killer instinct to ask him the question everyone wants answeredLatest election news – live updatesThe dead cat. Once, a sadness only for its owner and the various female cats it had impregnated and then left to deal with its...

No apologies as Corbyn styles himself as the Islington Aslan | Marina Hyde

As firestorm rages over antisemitism, Labour leader gives his race and faith event the big sellWherever the edifying story of this election goes next, we will always have the sheer WTF-ery of launching your race and faith manifesto on a morning that...

Could it be magic for Lib Dems’ Umunna in Watford? | Marina Hyde

After a Harry Potter studio tour, there’s more fantasy at foreign policy event at Vicarage Road Latest election news – live updatesTo the hospitality lounge at Watford Football Club, where the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Chuka Umunna t...

Jennifer Arcuri turns Johnson heartbreak into comedy horror | Marina Hyde

She says she’s kept his secrets and he’s treated her like a gremlin. Could she be dangerous to the PM?Latest election news - live updatesOn the day Boris Johnson addressed the CBI, it’s great to get a firmer idea of what he meant when he said “fuck b...

'Girly swot' Jo Swinson fights for more than a ringside seat in ITV debates | Marina Hyde

Lib Dem leader is ready to rumble in PR challenge to featherweights Johnson and CorbynBoxing gyms are supposed to be places where you can turn your life around. In which case, why did I spend this morning inside one with the Liberal Democrat leader,...

Boris Johnson finally gets his mop out but only makes things worse

Glacial responses to situations requiring leadership such as the UK floods have become the PM’s forte To say access to Boris Johnson is heavily controlled for this election would be to understate it. There are areas beneath the floorboards behind the...

A vintage Farage reverse ferret as he forges a leave alliance all on his own

After bullishly making the PM an offer he couldn’t refuse, the Brexit party leader wimps out of fight with ToriesNigel Farage has had a long night of the where-the-soul-should-be. In seclusion from the media for the past 48 hours, the Brexit party le...

Lurching and rambling, Boris Johnson is in charge. But he’s lost control | Marina Hyde

It’s been a taboo-busting start to the Tories’ election campaign. But the spectacle of their leader is the most grotesque of allThe spectacle of Boris Johnson in a suit is increasingly disconcerting. Everything the prime minister says would make much...

Johnson, Corbyn and Farage are all for ‘the people’ against ‘the elite’. This could end badly | Marina Hyde

It’s election time – and when three party leaders recite the same populist message, alarm bells should be ringingImagine our collective surprise to wake up today and discover that prime minister Boris Johnson wasn’t deceased in a ditch. And yet, we h...

Telling Gareth Bale that Johnson is PM took away banterpocalypse’s sole survivor | Marina Hyde

The Real Madrid forward had been blissfully unaware that Boris Johnson was running the UK – but now the country has blown a prime cloning opportunity to reclaim its lost innocenceWhy did they do it? What honestly possessed the newspaper journalist wh...

Pity our Conservative MPs, forced to go on strike to protect their way of life | Marina Hyde

Boris Johnson’s latest threat paints his government as a victim. At least the party long ago outlawed sympathy actionIt was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. On the one hand, inflatable reservist Mark Francois MP has previously promised...

David Cameron’s ‘greased piglet’: a fitting image for the Brexit moment | Marina Hyde

It’s entirely fitting that the former prime minister went there at a time of maximum national derangementThere’s a real sense of occasion now we’ve almost reached the bit of Brexit where the elites who gifted it to us don’t have to pretend any more....