Andrea Leadsom was yesterday the biggest name to fall in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet purge. Mrs Leadsom, who has twice run for the Tory party leadership and has held a variety of Cabinet and ministerial posts, took her team of advisers for a champagne lunch at the Goring Hotel in Westminster after her dismissal. Prominent Brexiteer … Read more
‘Got a promotion … to be a better Dad’: Chris Skidmore CELEBRATES his sacking as universities minister by Boris Johnson saying it will allow him to spend more time with his baby daughter Ottilie Skidmore was axed from his second term as universities minister this morning Kingswood MP posted pictures on Twitter of daughter Ottolie, … Read more
Rishi Sunak, a GP’s son who married an Indian tech billionaire’s daughter and built a multi million-pound fortune that saw him dubbed the ‘Maharaja of the Dales’, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to become Chancellor at the age of just 39. A graduate of £42,000-per-year Winchester College and Oxford University, where he studied PPE, he is … Read more
Sajid Javid’s decision to quit today is the culmination of a bitter internal battle for control with Dominic Cummings – that the Chancellor ultimately lost. The camps in No10 and No11 have been in a barely-concealed state of war for months, with increasingly brutal briefing. Today’s ultimatum to Mr Javid to sack his closest team … Read more
Julian Smith Julian Smith: Out as Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith’s removal as Northern Ireland Secretary represents a crushing blow for the man who successfully helped restore powersharing at Stormont after three years of deadlock. Mr Smith did what his predecessors failed to do when he steered the devolved assembly back on track in January … Read more
Well, hurrah. After almost a decade of fooling around, chaos, waste and confusion, we have finally saved the Tory Party from richly deserved doom. The Conservatives have now replaced Blairite New Labour as the main Left-wing party in the country. This is great for everyone who loves the Blair programme of fervent, intolerant political correctness, … Read more
Boris finally gets a Queen’s speech! Withdrawal Bill back before Christmas and £33billion for the NHS to be top of Her Majesty’s address to parliament Mr Johnson’s majority gives Tories control of the House for first time since 2017 Queen’s Speech on Thursday will set out the agenda for the new Parliament Main items will … Read more
Boris Johnson’s blockbuster election victory was not the work of one man, there was a whole team of advisers and specialists behind the Prime Minister’s historic win. The Tories put into place a tight-knit team featuring a mixture of old-school campaigners and younger upstarts skilled in the dark arts of social media. The result was … Read more
‘What an earthquake we have created!’ cried a jubilant Boris Johnson after his stunning UK election triumph last night. Unusually, the British Prime Minister wasn’t either wildly exaggerating or speaking with forked tongue. Johnson’s victory was a genuinely seismic moment, and one whose forceful tremors will be felt most keenly across the Atlantic in America. Because … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn today vowed to stay on as Labour leader for months as his hard-Left faction fights to keep control of the party despite the disastrous election rout. The veteran MP dismissed calls to step down immediately after overseeing the most catastrophic Labour showing in a poll since 1935. Extraordinarily he also rejected the idea … Read more
Singer Lily Allen has deleted her Twitter account as she faced a furious backlash over her claim that Boris Johnson won the election because ‘racism and misogyny run so deep’ in the UK. Social media users savaged the left-winger after she slammed the Tory victory this morning. One tweeted at the Labour supporter: ‘You do … Read more
This morning Boris Johnson is taking a well-deserved victory lap, having crossed the finish line victorious in the most dramatic general election victory for a generation. The wildest dreams of CCHQ’s most lateral thinkers did not foresee a majority of close to 80 seats and a Labour Party handed a defeat so crushing its leader … Read more
Boris Johnson ordered Remainers calling for a second referendum to ‘put a sock in it’ today as he hailed his staggering election landslide. After laying waste to Labour’s ‘red wall’ of Leave-backing strongholds, the PM said he had been given a ‘powerful’ vote of confidence by the British people and would work ‘night and day’ … Read more