British Politics

The New European's hit podcast is staging its first live event in London

The hard-right activist is urging her followers to boycott the charity over its supposed "inclusion agenda"

The shameless survivor who brought you Brexit doesn’t deserve another platform

Angela Rayner teased and then taunted her old sparring partner in his last big appearance as her shadow

Former Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden has quickly forgotten his north-east roots

The weighting of a story about the Croydon man shot by police is all wrong

Whatever Rachel Reeves announces will make her deeply unpopular. But that won’t necessarily mean she’s wrong

The debate has opened up a number of complex moral dilemmas and cast doubt on the ability of the NHS to cope with the additional pressure

Clearly, the chancellor has no intention of courting short-term popularity as the budget looms

We asked our listeners at the O2 whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick should be the next Tory leader. The response was bleak for both candidates

Our digest of the worst of Westminster welcomes the slippery charmer to the Spectator editor's chair

The Trump campaign plays on the deepest fears and instincts of the US electorate – making rational arguments against him will not work

Owned by an oligarch and run by an editor who seems suddenly out of his depth, the London Evening Standard has been subjected to a slow, cruel death

Johnson says that his new book on Harold Wilson isn’t meant as a message to the current PM. But it is

The PM has promised to put country before party. None of his Tory predecessors did, so why should he?

The government should be tackling the roots of populism, not scoffing at ‘unelectable’ opponents who embrace it

He has no charisma, intellectual consistency or distinguishing features of any kind. Other than being very, very right wing, who – or what – is he?

Something about the shadow chancellor makes broadcasters reach for the Chaucer

UK consumers may face a limited supply of Christmas trees this year, with Brexit-related challenges casting uncertainty over their import

The loss of jobs has been a disaster and blown a £1bn hole in Britain’s tax revenues

The Green party risks being dismissed as a hard left protest vote – how can it broaden its appeal?

A series of questions on China gave the PM much-needed breathing space

The England football team’s new coach is German - and for some that outweighs his winning record and a real coup by the FA

Labour failed to look at the maternity allowance before publishing the Employment Rights Bill

Giving a police escort to a woman who has been a terror target was the right thing to do

The social media platform has become so vile and corrupted that no politician should be anywhere near it

Why do oligarchs – and their defamation lawyers – still have the power to silence all criticism?

The paper loathes Labour and its PM - and that won’t change. So why are they still so keen to please it?

The Labour prime minister has said the way to kickstart the British economy is to cut red tape. What the hell is he thinking?

The private equity industry – a wealth-extracting machine – is swallowing up UK businesses and stripping them of their assets while our politicians stand by

The PM is running out of time to change the narrative around his government’s shaky start