British Politics

The former home secretary recalled visiting the Italian-Turkish border, despite no such thing existing

The anti-establishment Reform leader got to use Winston's Churchill birthplace as the backdrop to his new year's message

Surprise political forces were the story of 2016. Now the world knows they are here to stay – and Britain should brace itself

The 12 months ahead are fraught with danger for both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

Farage’s party is the most significant threat to UK democracy in living memory. Failure to learn the political lessons will hand him the keys to No 10

Trump’s threatened crackdown on immigration could drive more highly skilled workers towards Britain. The government must be ready to welcome them

The prime minister should be spared social media’s grief voyeurism as he mourns the loss of his brother

A little humility from the Tories, a lot more help for Ukraine and a ban on BBC interview platitudes are all on my wishlist for the new year

The former Conservative MP is still out of work nearly six months after losing his seat

The shadow Wales secretary has contradicted her leader and said the Tories might have compensated the Waspi women after all

The new peer is peddling misinformation about Bridget Phillipson’s plans for education

The paper’s Sam Ashworth-Hayes thinks catastrophe is on the cards - but there are several factors he’s overlooked

The right wing newspaper's claims of a Labour-sparked rise in the price of holidays is pure fantasy

The Reform leader is curiously keen on the big four auditors sifting through his books, despite their links to a body he rejects

Reality TV makers sniffing around the former prime minister should beware the lesson of GB News

The pandemic changed the way people work and Artificial Intelligence is about to drive even more change. But the government isn’t keeping up – and that’s a big problem

Labour can only put its stumbling start behind it if it constructs a compelling narrative to match the one peddled by populists

The Tory leader has given her rival even more free publicity - but she's right to have picked this fight

In Kosovo, there’s a statue to a former British PM, where he’s regarded as a hero. But if you want to see it, you need to take the bus

If you don’t someone else will tell it for you – and chances are you won’t like what you hear

Andrea Jenkyns and Tim Montgomerie are at each other's throats just weeks after defecting to the party

The culture war argument over abortion helped Trump get back into the White House. Now Farage wants to use the same trick – can it work over here?

Nigel Farage rushed to judgement again - and got it wrong again

Will they or won’t they?

Labour is a swirl of competing interest groups and right now “the Deliverers” are in charge. But will they be able to see off Musk, Reform and the populist right?

Just why were Charlotte Owen and Ross Kempsell put into the House of Lords by Boris Johnson? We may be about to find out

The Guardian columnist wrote a 9,000 word rant on the BBC’s sloppiness over the Israel/Hamas war, then failed to read a 37-word anti-Semitic comment – which he then liked

A recent social media rant by the Telegraph columnist about Hugo Rifkind, the Times writer, contained a stunning revelation

While the music legend was playing the O2, a gathering worthy of The New European’s Shit List was taking place in Westminster

The ailing broadsheet has become fixated with a losing candidate for the top position – and not for the first time

The chair of the Labour Movement for Europe explains why the group is not campaigning to rejoin the EU – but trying to salvage relations instead