I narrowly avoided winning a plastic lizard. That’s a good thing, because otherwise I think I would have been robbed for it by a seething mob of septuagenarians. At 49, I am the youngest person in the bingo hall by a decade or two, and the other patrons look at me with thinly veiled suspicion. … Read more
The former Prime Minister has released her memoir ‘Ten Years to Save the West’ (PA). Liz Truss had already discredited herself with her talk of the ‘deep state’ plotting against her as Prime Minister. The first passages from her book seem just as embarrassing. She describes a car ride with Kwasi Kwarteng, her chancellor, after … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives and Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor Party will contest the general election later this year. (AFP via Getty Images) With Labor still riding high in the polls, one expert has suggested the party is all but guaranteed to form the next government. A general election will take place in the second half of … Read more
() When Ophelia Lovibond took the stage last week during the opening night of The Hills of California, she was euphoric. “It was bliss, a wonderful feeling,” she tells me the next day. “My agent said she saw me glowing like the cat that got the cream.” Returning to the West End for the first … Read more
Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace and Dominic Raab, among others, will resign The next general election will see more Conservative MPs resign than at any time since Labour’s 1997 landslide. Fifty-seven Tories have now said they plan to leave Parliament rather than seek re-election, with a poll expected in 2024. There are fears that the Conservatives … Read more
When Nicola Sturgeon failed the UK Covid inquiry, she was accused of shedding crocodile tears. They seemed real enough to me, brought on by her motives being questioned and seeing what was left of her estate drained away under Jamie Dawson KC’s interrogation. The former prime minister was willing to admit errors of judgment. What … Read more
Boris Johnson has attacked Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the DUP, warning it could bind the UK to EU trade rules in the future. Sunak’s government has unveiled new schemes to scrap routine checks on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing at Stormont. The checks required under … Read more
Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, has an article in The Sun saying Brexit was a vote of confidence in the country (PA Wire) We have not one but two articles from Conservative leadership candidates in the papers this morning. Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, has an article in The sun He said Brexit was a … Read more
open range Outgoing BT chief Philip Jansen has a favorite mantra: “Build like fury”. Jansen has used the term repeatedly during a furious race to roll out full fiber broadband in the UK. Boris Johnson fired the starting gun with a promise to reach every home in the country by 2025. The target not only … Read more