British Politics

The former Tory PM had no idea what he was doing on Europe. If the present PM hasn’t learned from the mistakes of the past, he is doomed to repeat them

The PM would prefer a Harris victory, but snubbing the Republican would have been dereliction of duty

Instead of being shamed and forgotten, the former Tory minister is quids-in as new editor of the Spectator

Ministers are kicking back over Freebiegate, but Fleet Street loves nothing more than a story that runs and runs

The prime minister must stop giving the media the chance to go into frenzy or outrage mode

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

Claims of ‘proof’ that foreign workers cost Britain more than they put in are nebulous in the extreme

With readers increasingly moving away from newsprint, the format’s future could be in jeopardy

The double whammy of losing the fuel allowance and the hike in first-class post will lead to far fewer cards being sent and received this year

If the Democratic candidate wants to seal the deal with American voters, she should go on Joe Rogan’s podcast

The Tory papers are relishing the chance to bash Labour. But with sliding circulations and their pals out of power, are they still relevant?

The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

Farage’s party are a bunch of deluded dogwhistlers, but here’s the rub: they could actually win the next election

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

For Generation X, it lives on in Scottish politics, culture and memory

No, we’re not living in a socialist dystopia as the Telegraph’s Simon Heffer claims - and nonsense like this is making the Tories unelectable

In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”

Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble

A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m

Labour and Tories are both divided on assisted dying – so long as that political uncertainty continues, Britain isn’t a safe place for vulnerable people

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

The Mail and Express claimed EU flags had been banned and seized on the Last Night - but thousands were seen being waved by the crowd

The former Conservative prime minister told Amol Rajan that when it comes to the “ultras” who took Britain out of the EU, he's in an unforgiving mood

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

It is part of Labour's challenge to make sure the public never forget this reality

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

Labour could have made a much better argument over the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance. But it didn’t. Big mistake