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Comedian MITCH BENN on what advice Boris Johnson may have penned to Liz Truss as he left Downing Street

It’s time to formalise Britain’s “monarchic republic”

The EU has offered to scrap almost all border checks but the new PM may not be allowed to listen to logic

Is the Carlton Club, the Conservative citadel in St James’s, about to offer Sunak free membership?

Lord Pickles as chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, has reminded them of their obligations to disclose all commercial ventures they are invested in

His resignation had little to do with his private company's links to Russian business and more to do with the fact that his friend Boris Johnson was no longer party leader

The two differing personalities will likely make for an interesting relationship

Matt Hancock tells MANDRAKE not to count Kemi Badenoch out

An accident of timing gave me my name, and a lifelong interest in the royals

Amid the respect, there was some sorrow for what has been lost - not just the ruler, but her country

With vital help from a rebuilt team of advisers and her close family, she navigated the institution through the trickiest of times by showing real leadership acumen

There are better places to generate electricity than farmland, writes one reader

Discoveries of tablets inscribed with curses provide an insight into the language spoken by the British lower classes

To match one of these plump bivalves with ice cream is a risky move, but it works

Keir Starmer's performance during this coming winter of discontent will decide whether he becomes prime minister in the future

Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously

A certain group of Brexiteers have got everything they wanted - but they still yearn for the impossible

A willingness to adapt rather than stick with the ways of the past would be beneficial for the contemporary political environment

Economic turmoil will test Britain's new prime minister

After Brexit killed freedom of movement, how easy is it to live in the EU for Brits in despair?

Boris Johnson's premiership exposed the weaknesses and systemic failures in our machinery of government, says the woman who defeated him in court

The former prime minister’s Oxfordshire farmhouse could help benefit the Johnsons' stretched finances

The songs perfect for the exit of Boris Johnson, as presented by comedian MITCH BENN

Liz Truss may have risen to the top by projecting herself as some kind of Margaret Thatcher tribute, but Thatcher's first cabinet contained serious political names. Truss's does not

In normal circumstances this musical is the sort of thing that would have found a stage quickly enough and held on to it for months. These are not, however, normal circumstances

The Take That star is engaging, but a two hour 20 minute talk through his life story is quite the ask

Boris Johnson wants to be remembered as a great man of British political history. So how does his scorecard look?

Vine accused her of being a “weapons-grade narcissist”

Few journalists symbolised the BBC in its relatively recent glory days like him

Dacre sees Truss as someone who will recognise that it's the Mail not the electorate that now calls the shots in this country

Guided by a right-wing Brexiteer with an outdated view of the economy, Liz Truss is setting the UK on a disastrous course