Conservative Leadership Contest

Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Polling shows party members want her – but the wider voting public would choose him.

— Will Conservative Party members choose their preferred leader to become the new Prime Minister or the candidate who is more popular with the wider public?

Conservative Leadership Contest

Conservative leadership election: Why tax cuts are an economic gamble.

— Some leadership contenders seem to have big plans for a smaller state.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s ignominious end: The difference between ‘big tent’ politics and personalised populism.

— What exactly was “Johnsonism” beyond a few slogans such as “levelling up” and the scandals that attracted the attention? Behind Boris Johnson’s buffoonish exterior, the quick wit and wearisome repartee, lay very little.

Conservative Leadership Contest

Tory leadership hopefuls fail to address the reality that Brexit is a disaster.

— LBC presenter James O’Brien explains everything that needs to be understood about the current Conservative Leadership contestants and their failure to recognise that Brexit is an escalating national tragedy.

Fact-Check

Boris Johnson’s claim of a ‘mandate’ from the people isn’t accurate.

— Fact-check: The ministers’ revolt against Boris Johnson wasn’t anti-democratic – it’s representative democracy in action. As for his claim to have a mandate from the people, it is misguided.

Analysis

Boris Johnson’s messy political legacy of lies, scandals and delivering Brexit to his base.

— The scandal that brought his downfall wasn’t Boris Johnson’s first. Witty and charming to some, but dishonest and untrustworthy to others, he leaves his country and party very divided, as well as the legacy of his scandals.

COMMENT

Boris boosterism and bluster won’t keep Brexit Britain’s reality hidden forever.

— Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.

Conservative Leadership Contest

What happens – and when – in the race to replace Boris Johnson.

— Conservative MPs vote in the first round and members in the second.

Analysis

What Boris Johnson said in his bitter resignation speech and what he really meant.

— Boris Johnson breaks from his party in a bitter resignation speech in which there is no sense of taking responsibility and no sense of apology.

Stats

Boris Johnson’s premiership – Worst resignation rate and one of the shortest tenures.

— Boris Johnson has announced his departure from office following a record number of ministerial resignations.

COMMENT

Boris remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety.

— Boris Johnson’s legacy: There is a sense of a country that is packaging and re-packaging shop-worn goods with a sales pitch that runs to superlatives.

Analysis

Boris Johnson’s nightmare day: How to read between the lines in resignation letters from government ministers.

— There was a sense of self-aggrandisement about the resignation letters sent by Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak that led to Boris Johnson eventually resigning. Overall, there is so much material in all the letters sent to the PM that we could analyse them for years to come.

COMMENT

‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent.

— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s reluctant resignation.

— Boris Johnson’s resignation speech in full and the experts’ opinions.

OPINION

Get Borexit done.

— As the two words “I resign” have not crossed his lips and he is carrying on as though nothing had happened in a very disturbing way... Has Boris Johnson actually resigned?

UK Politics

Boris Johnson: Four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading.

— The prime minister’s personal popularity has plummeted but the people who decide how to replace him still can’t agree on a successor.