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Framing Starmer
How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher
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Boris Johnson resigns
Was it part of a deal with Sunak?
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Boris Johnson: An obituary
The damage Johnson has inflicted on the country is deep and it will be lasting
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The Budget is another wasted chance by a bunch of chancers
A pensions saving giveaway for the super-rich shows the government’s warped priorities
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Forget the budget, here’s the real, dirty way Sunak aims to win the next election
By weaponising migrant boats and letting his MPs stoke culture wars, the PM is damaging his party and the country
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Is Oakeshott treading on thin legal ice?
The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Šefčovič’s loose lips could signal trouble for Rishi Sunak
The glowing headlines of less than a week ago seem considerably further away for the prime minister
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Boris Johnson’s latest intervention is more bad news for Sunak’s deal
The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland
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Does Boris Johnson see the Northern Ireland Protocol as his route back to No 10?
The former prime minister is already framing the betrayal narrative which could see Brexiteers force Rishi Sunak out
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These are the resolutions Sunak and Co should make for 2023
Stop smirking, Jeremy Hunt! And do anything you can to avoid needing the NHS, Steve Barclay…
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Johnson hoping a little local difficulty will return him to No 10
The former prime minister is plotting his return to power after May's local elections
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Meet Rishi Sunak’s fabulously wealthy new policy chief
Eleanor Shawcross is married to the Next boss Lord Wolfson, whose personal fortune is estimated to run into hundreds of millions
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Who would be the best PM for Remainers? There’s no good answer – and one really bad one
If the UK is forced to endure another Tory government, is there anyone out there who might be willing to face facts on Brexit?
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Downing Street solves chancellor’s house hunt
His move to No 11 suits Jeremy Hunt, who has submitted plans for a substantial refurbishment of his Pimlico home
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Was Harri sniffing out jobs for Johnson?
The meetings held by the outgoing PM's communications chief in the dying days of his government sound suspiciously like he was hunting out employment opportunities
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Liz Truss plummets to success
The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans
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Truss shuns No 10 ‘school dinner’ fare for Deliveroo
The new prime minister and her husband are used to swankier food and drink than that served in Downing Street
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It’s Little Britain, the sequel
Liz Truss looks set to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor and play to the crowd rather than take her responsibilities seriously
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Liz Truss, cartoon Mrs Thatcher, takes power
Economic turmoil will test Britain's new prime minister
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Miller: It’s time for checks and balances
Boris Johnson's premiership exposed the weaknesses and systemic failures in our machinery of government, says the woman who defeated him in court
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Lishi Trunak, not Joe Lycett, have made us a worldwide joke
In choosing Truss to succeed Johnson, it is pretty clear the Tory Party has not learned much from the reasons he turned out to be such a spectacular failure
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Where does Boris Johnson rank in British politics?
May was inept, Chamberlain an appeaser. Callaghan was diverted and Cameron was frivolous. Yet none were as bad as Boris Johnson
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Barwell’s burgeoning bottom line
Theresa May's chief of staff is coining it in offering the advice which proved so useful to the former prime minister
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39 good reasons Liz Truss will be a terrible Prime Minister
Truss has the potential to be a prime minister who makes the Johnson era look like one of calmness and stability
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Did theatrical farce finally drive Johnson over the edge?
Patrick Ryecart's new play Carrie on Boris is near-the-knuckle stuff
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Allegra Stratton steps into a new role
Some are seeing this as a demotion, but anything is a step up after working for Johnson
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Hammond and Crosby make for strange bedfellows
The prime minister's strategist Lynton Crosby set up a lettings business with Remainer former chancellor Philip Hammond
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Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claiming Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie Symonds a £100,000 role
Why did one of the scoops of the year suddenly disappear from newspapers friendly to the prime minister?
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Carrie faces a PR challenge
There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street
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Matt Hancock’s enjoying the good life
Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown
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‘Are the English crazy?’ – how the rest of Europe sees us
As Currygate follows Partygate, Europeans following events in the
UK are doing so with a mixture of bemusement and incredulity
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Scapegoats and sacrificial lambs in the Johnson zoo
As Sue Gray reports, speculation is mounting as to which and how many necks Boris Johnson will offer to the block in order to save his own