Politics
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband to spearhead inquest into election defeat
The review will include interviewing all 59 MPs who lost their seats during the crumbling of Labour’s so-called “red wall” of constituencies in the North, the Midlands and Wales.
Tory grandees plot boundary shake-up to win 100-seat majority at next election
Senior party figures want Boris Johnson to bring forward plans to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 - which could hand him a 104 seat majority.
Government risking repeating Brexit mistakes on Irish unity, senator says
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have stated they do not believe it is the right time for any border poll on reunification.
Ex-speaker John Bercow should be given peerage, says successor Sir Lindsay Hoyle
The newly-installed Speaker said a seat in the House of Lords ‘should be offered’ to the controversial figure.
Rory Stewart’s micro manifesto for London
The independent candidate talks to The London Economic about his bid to become mayor of a city of 700 villages.
Momentum founder ‘advising’ Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey
It is also claimed the MP over-egged the origins of her inspiration to get into politics.
US ambassador hails ‘Roaring Twenties’ for Britain after Brexit
Robert ‘Woody’ Johnson also said the White House’s view on a trade deal between the US and UK as ‘very positive’.
Laura Kuenssberg takes a swipe at Remainer MPs who tried to “undo Brexit”
The BBC's political editor suggested that history will not look kindly on those who tried to undo the exit.
PM’s chief aide Dominic Cummings paid three times average UK salary
Special advisers have cost the taxpayer £9.6 million so far this year, £700,000 more than the 2018 total.