If anything, the past few years have shown us why it should be difficult for a prime minister to call an election at will.
Significant steps need to be taken for elections to go ahead safely in May.
Robert Jenrick says due process is under attack – so he’s handing himself the power to grant the final say about statues and street names.
Spending decisions can often be explained by looking at who voted for the party in government.
No one ever ‘triggered’ a treaty article before Brexit and Article 50.
The negotiating teams have achieved something monumental but this is nevertheless really only the beginning of the future relationship.
There are three tricky issues left on the table, and one of them seems impossible to resolve.
Again and again revelations about this form of prejudice are revealed and ignored.
Leaving the shared system will make it harder to get criminals out of European countries when they are suspected of a crime.
It might not have been good for Johnson, but things seem to be working out well for Scottish workers.
The idea that Boris Johnson was under some kind of spell during the Cummings era is a convenient one for him.
This was always a marriage of convenience for the UK prime minister. But that doesn’t mean it will be an easy divorce.
The question of the Irish border after Brexit is a more pressing matter for the next president than it has been for his predecessor.
Politics cannot be separated from emotion, as the past few months have clearly shown.
After four years of obstruction from Trump, European leaders have a long wish list and are impatient to get to work with Joe Biden.
Attacks in Austria and France mean that the UK is also on high alert.
On the political significance of Ian Blackford’s tartan curtains.
Both sides are thinking about more than just the rules in this case.
History shows that revenge is a dish often served cold in Westminster.
Financial support is the way to protect health and the economy. Right now, Boris Johnson is achieving neither.