Downing Street

The Sunday Times gave the impression recently that anyone, elected or not, can have a go at governing

The former foreign secretary is eyeing up Number 10 (again)

As the government totters, its rabid lapdog is going all-out on attacking Labour

Downing Street parties have proven the final straw for lifelong Tory voter Tony Blackburn

The prime minister and Rishi Sunak are being fined for breaking Covid rules… but don’t count on either resigning

The chancellor’s disastrous spring statement has set a timebomb ticking under the prime minister. How will he react?

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

Comedian MITCH BENN on the government's flag-waving and photo op filled response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

As The Godfather is re-released, what lessons does it hold for fans like the prime minister about holding on to power at any cost?

The confusion over recognising testing on industrial goods by the EU is just the start for this liability of a minister

The nation needs serious politicians. Instead, we have Boris Johnson’s lies, Liz Truss’ Instagram diplomacy and Oliver Dowden’s warnings against woke

The parties, the lies and now the replacements... his actions show his sole objective to be personal survival, no matter the cost

Comedian MITCH BENN on the various 'operations' created to save Boris Johnson's skin

An exhausted, incoherent government is the by-product of a confused, chaotic Conservatism that no longer knows what it stands for.

Long may Johnson limp on, writes one reader. He's become an electoral liability which will only continue to work in the opposition's favour.

Her Partygate update has ended the prime minister’s bounceback and put his future back in serious doubt

It is an impossible satire that Boris Johnson could be put on trial. But, if we had an independent authority, beholden to parliament not Downing Street, we wouldn't need one, writes PAUL MASON.

Overseas observers are talking about Britain like it's suffered a natural disaster, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Boris Johnson's director of communications is quite the natural when it comes to obtaining personal mobile numbers. MANDRAKE wonders if this sometimes has sinister consequences.

They will try to claim victory whatever it says - and they've put a brilliant civil servant in an impossible position

The director-general has expressed his passion for total transparency, and feels what has been declared thus far only scratches the surface...

A superficial prime minister is in the dock – again – for a transgression that stems from the fatal flaw that has defined his career: arrogance.

The only party to look forward to is the one celebrating the departure of this dreadful government, says ALASTAIR CAMPBELL.

There is a conflict of interest epidemic plaguing the government. And it starts at the top.

Comedian MITCH BENN reports from the Number 10 New Year's Eve Karaoke Party.

After the two years we’ve had, raising a glass on New Year’s Eve felt almost like an exercise in universe-baiting. But there are reasons to be hopeful over the next 12 months.

A career learning how to get away with it in UK newspapers was poor training for telling lies as a Prime Minister

We had his number from the start. Here are the front pages that prove it

Don't laugh. The sight of someone called Allegra laughing it up about cheese and wine on a day that 608 people were drawing their last breaths in UK hospitals from Coronavirus should make us all sick.

In amongst all the Boris Johnson chaos, a second contender for political dummy of the week emerged, although it’s been little reported in the mainstream media. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, at the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports select committee, told MPs that in weighing up the future of Channel 4, (which it is widely assumed […]

UPDATED 13.30: Apparently they've changed their minds now.