Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Conservative chairman.
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The prime minister’s pledge to bring integrity to public office could become a stick to beat him with – just like ‘back to basics’ became for John Major.
Nicola Sturgeon.
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The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
The Circus by Georges Seurat (1891).
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An expert in the circus in literature and culture explains the root of its resonance as a political metaphor – and why circus performers object to it.
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An influential group of the UK prime minister’s own backbenchers want more wind farms.
Allegations of bullying and misconduct are a worrying sign for British democracy.
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When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
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With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
Six former UK prime ministers and a potential new one in Labour’s Keir Starmer.
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The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
Hasn’t Matt Hancock already got his fifteen minutes?
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Matt Hancock’s controversial appearance on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here raises important questions on the true purpose of MPs.
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Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
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Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
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It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
George Canning, now the second-shortest-serving prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
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The law says MPs have to vote in favour of holding an election – and with the Conservatives facing huge losses, there’s little chance of them wanting one.
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It is time for the Conservative Party to have a cup of tea, a Bex and good lie down.
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The runners and riders in 2022’s second Conservative party leadership race.
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The shortest serving prime minister in British history ran into trouble even before taking office.
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The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Another prime minister shown the door.
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Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
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The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
Liz Truss, mid-speech.
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In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.