British Politics

A top BBC boss tried to fix who chaired its regulator, Ofcom. Now the corporation won’t set the record straight

In failing to realise the value of compromise, serial protestors guarantee they will change nothing

The man who took Britain out of the EU can do an act of public service in his new role as foreign secretary

Nearly three-quarters of UK firms say leaving the EU has affected them “very negatively”

‘Colossal failure of leadership’ at title, says former star writer Stephen Bush

A debate on reversing Brexit is moving from the Edinburgh Fringe to the London stage

The capital’s representatives in government have been too male, too pale and too stale

The Supreme Court’s judgement makes clear that this was a plan that would never have worked

Price rises are finally slowing because of oil and gas, not because of the PM

It is hard to overestimate the damage the combination of Brexit, Johnson and Truss has done

A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit

Even by recent standards, it’s been quite a week for the Conservatives. Sunak actually grows a pair, Braverman is out (for now), and an old face is back in the cabinet

The thinktank behind Liz Truss’s mini-budget now claims leaving the EU hasn’t harmed UK trade

An anonymous doctor shares how an overwhelmed NHS is struggling to care for those at the end of their lives

When will the media stop spouting the official Israeli claims of targeting Hamas? To wipe out 45% of civilian homes (so far) doesn’t sound like targeting

Suella Braverman’s cruel attack on unhoused people points to a larger problem and must not be forgotten amid the reshuffle

Does Nigel Farage’s I’m a Celebrity... appearance signal a return to the mainstream? Or just desperation?

New research shows people aged 30 are earning 8% less than their Gen X counterparts

Britain’s efforts to sign a free trade deal with India have slipped again after another deadline passed

The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street

David Cameron is back, and that’s not a good sign for the Tories

The prime minister’s reshuffle has handed Braverman the leadership of a disgruntled and vocal right

Labour’s short-sighted u-turn on open access to the countryside continues the unfair status quo

In the UK and the US, political parties must accept that trade unionism is on the rise

A new crop of hardline Christian fundamentalists think they should decide what’s taught in British classrooms. They’re just as sinister as their US counterparts

That was Suella Braverman’s verdict on immigration - and it is now the verdict on a politician setting her sights on No.10

Their idiotic interventions about Saturday’s protest have made a delicate situation much worse

We’ve been pretending for too long that nothing happened. But it did. And we need to talk about it

This was the time to tackle failing apprenticeships and the lack of an industrial strategy - it didn’t happen

The public wants, and expects, government to solve its own problems but this government is not equipped to do so

Boris Johnson’s lack of focus and lack of humanity cost lives during Covid. Yet instead of facing charges, he is raking in the cash