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3 weeks ago
There’s a great river of molten horror approaching. What better time for a nice, long, frenzied leadership contest? Continue reading...
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3 weeks ago
The Conservative leadership race is in full swing. It’s been a week of awkward campaign videos, dirty tricks and wild promises on taxation. The Guardian’s Marina Hyde joins John Harris and Rafael Behr to talk through the weird and wonderful in the co...
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1 month ago
One ridiculously graceless ‘resignation’ speech later, here are the top Tory gorgons competing to control the sunlit uplands Continue reading...
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1 month ago
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid have decided they’re finally done with 2022’s full-scale debasement of public life. Who’s next? Continue reading...
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1 month ago
Of course the PM and his allies backed their disgraced deputy chief whip. Just two scandals? That hardly registers these days Continue reading...
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1 month ago
The PM touting for a £150k treehouse while voting against free school meals makes the MPs’ expenses scandal look like a halcyon era Continue reading...
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1 month ago
If the prime minister tried to make his then-girlfriend chief of staff at the Foreign Office, it’s on him. Not that he’d admit it Continue reading...
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1 month ago
Without a clear vision, the focus is on personality politics. Starmer is busy looking for one, but so far it’s not going well Continue reading...
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1 month ago
Only a government in full flight from reality would use the troubled streaming service as its go-to aspirational touchstone Continue reading...
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2 months ago
The prime minister has survived the vote of no-confidence. And now we are all Clarice, forced to watch what’s next Continue reading...
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2 months ago
As No 10 goes ‘bananas’ with announcements, the British public can only sit and wait until the banter king is finally deposed Continue reading...
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2 months ago
It takes a very weird bunch to stay loyal after the damning Sue Gray verdict on Partygate. They are that bunch Continue reading...
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2 months ago
A Tory MP has demanded to know: ‘Was the Met weak, gullible, incompetent or stupid?’ The answer is yes – on all counts Continue reading...
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2 months ago
Any bright spots as No 10 continues to put misconduct above problem-solving? Well, Rishi Sunak has £730m to fall back on Continue reading...
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2 months ago
Had you thought of being paid more, suggests one minister. Who dares claim the government has no bright ideas Continue reading...