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Sunak ‘guaranteed’ the next general election would take place next year but it would be a brave man who would bet the farm on a promise made by the PM

Most of the emergency government aid went to covering care homes’ loss of revenue. Care workers, meanwhile, kept the sector afloat through overtime

A failed prime minister is blocking progress as the country crumbles around him

Rishi Sunak has dealt a blow to nostalgic Brexiteers by scrapping plans to reintroduce imperial measurements

Local authorities can expect increasingly large cuts in the years to come as the Conservatives seek to fund their tax agenda

Despite endless promises of post-EU jam tomorrow, Rishi Sunak’s government has been forced to eat humble pie over the last 12 months

After holding off some formidable competition, Michelle Mone has claimed the coveted title of The New European’s Liar of the Year for 2023

The returning sci-fi series – a British institution – reminds us that we still do many things brilliantly and with generosity of spirit

The belief that saying something instantly makes it a fact is a very dangerous tendency, but it seems to be a common affliction in politicians

For our final letters pages of 2023, a selection of our favourite missives of the year. Thank you to all who wrote in

We only met once and since then he’s been trying to ruin my life. Sort of

Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?

The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it

The whole Rwanda debacle is just a deceit to fool some voters and try to please the Tory backbenchers.

Having finished third on I’m a Celebrity, Nasty Nigel will no doubt be back on our screens with further cynical attempts to detoxify his public image

Their absurd arguments are cover for their own impending irrelevance

Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair

Our legal system is one of the few remaining checks holding government to account - no wonder pundits and politicians attack it

If Sunak can’t be a credible leader for the Tories, then they will find someone who can

How the ‘fearless’ Tory press meekly ducked criticism of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak over Covid

Which bittersweet symphonies best sum up Britain’s political parties?

Our modern democracy demands – and deserves – more modern ways of functioning

Europe may have led the Tories to destroy themselves, but Thatcher had already set in motion the destruction of the country

A national insurance cut for January indicates we could only be six months from a poll

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division

The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life

The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee

The Home Office’s failure to process asylum applications speedily is incompetent and inhumane

Foreign Direct Investment is a key economic indicator – and it indicates that Britain is in big trouble