In a classic episode of Yes, Minister the hapless minister Jim Hacker and adroit civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby desperately try to stop a visiting African president from making a controversial speech in front of the Queen. The fictional country's leader successfully extorts money from the British government in exchange ...
Treasury Parliamentary Private Secretary Scott Mann has handed his resignation in protest over the so-called "Chequers Deal". Mann becomes the ninth MP to hand in his resignation in eight days after David Davis and Boris Johnson led the way last week. (10 MPs if you include May ally Andrew Griffiths resigning ...
Theresa May has today revealed what Donald Trump's elusive nugget of advice was over the EU. The US president told reporters at a press conference on Friday that he had told May how to deal with Union. He said his suggestion was found to be "too brutal" by the Prime ...
The US president arrived in Scotland on Friday evening after completing his two-day "working trip". Mr Trump, whose mother was Scottish, and his wife Melania are spending the weekend at his Turnberry hotel.
The House of Commons had to be suspended as angry MPs raged at the new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab for presenting Theresa May's Berexit White Paper to MPs without a chance for them to read it first before they have a chance to ask questions. Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer ...
The Conservatives suffered blows across every metric in a post-Chequers poll. Labour opened up a two point gap ahead of Theresa May's beleaguered party following a raft of resignations last week, with just 13 per cent of the British public saying they believe we will get a good deal out ...
Brexit chaos continues to engulf Westminster. David Davis and Boris Johnson have resigned, along with a number of minor Conservative figures. The long awaited Brexiteer rebellion may finally have begun. And it could be fatal for the Tory Party. It's hard to underestimate the trouble the Conservative Party is in ...
A real man of the people has joined the cabinet after Boris Johnson and David Davis decided their jobs were just too hard for them. Jeremy Hunt has moved to Foreign Sec and Matt Hancock to Health to replace him, The PM promoted the Attorney General Jeremy Wright to Hancock’s ...
"In politics, there are Realists and there are Romantics", William Hague wrote in the Telegraph today. His words echo those printed in a Guardian editorial last week before the Chequers outcome unravelled, pointing to the collection of rudderless populists that have been left in charge of running the country for the past ...