UK Politics

How can Parliament discipline the PM?

— The more we understand the rules, the better we all can be at making sure MPs stick to them.

Brexit

Six years of failure.

— Professor Chris Grey looks at some aspects of where these years have now led us.

UK Local Elections

Local elections 2022: Your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK.

— What to expect for Labour and Conservatives in England and Wales, as the pressure keeps mounting on Boris Johnson? What about Northern Ireland where Sinn Féin are favourite to become the largest party?

COMMENT

Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false.

— What are the media and journalists pushing the Starmer Beergate story distracting their readers from just a few days before the local elections?

OPINION

Johnson’s removal will not alter the British democratic deficit.

— Anyone chosen by the Tories to replace the PM will have been a party to, and complicit in, the lies, corruption, authoritarianism, and deceit which has characterised the Tory party under Boris Johnson.

Analysis

Democracy undermined: How elections in the UK are changing.

— The new Elections Act weakens the UK’s claim to be a beacon of democracy as 1.1 million people may not cast a vote at future parliamentary elections as a result of this reform.

Brexit

Sometimes, “We told you so” is all that can be said.

— When will Boris Johnson and his many adjutants take responsibility for their lies about Brexit? If ever they do, and until they do, Brexit remains their responsibility, their mess, their guilt, their shame, and their legacy.

Meet Your MP

Meet your MP — Neil Parish

— Is there no end to MPs’ bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, unaccountability or misbehaviour in general? How much do you actually even know about your local MPs? This is Neil Parish, former Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton.

UK Politics

Angela Rayner, porn in parliament and a depressing week for British politics.

— Labour’s deputy leader was forced to justify her own response to comments made about her. How the responsibility shifted to Angela Rayner.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson dragging the Tory Party into the sewer – Angela Rayner.

— In a series of tweets, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner hits out at “perverted smears” by Tory MPs published in the Mail on Sunday in an attempt to save Boris Johnson’s skin, as she accuses him of “dragging the Conservative Party into the sewer”.

UK Politics

Partygate: Is Boris Johnson lying?

— The prime minister accepts he broke the law but the question now becomes, did he mislead parliament about it? Either he engaged in immoral behaviour by lying, misrepresented the truth or he didn’t understand his own rules – and must admit to incompetence.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: How declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy.

— A new survey shows a strong link between trusting the prime minister and trusting the government, Parliament and political parties.

Analysis

British voters want lying politicians to face consequences.

— Does it matter to people what consequences there should be for politicians who break rules or mislead parliament? Yes, they want ministers to be kept in constant check by parliament, courts and the public at large.

Analysis

What is a non-dom?

— An expert answers our questions about the tax status claimed by Rishi Sunak’s wife and other wealthy people.

Fact-Check

Tories: Displacement of responsibility as a golden rule.

— An uncomfortable Chancellor Rishi Sunak finds himself in the middle of a storm because of his family business links to Russia.

COMMENT

PM resignation – A show of hypocrisy.

— Tory MP tweets her indignation at the thought that Senior Conservatives such as John Major or Theresa May dare to publicly call for Boris Johnson’s resignation... forgetting she, herself, tweeted about Theresa May being toasted back in 2019 and having voted her out.