Johnson has far less in common with Churchill than he might have wished for but one thing that they did have in common was that most of their humour and witticisms were supremely practised rather tha… (View Post)

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." (View Post)

I suspect not much. The Tories as a party were losing the place, if they had not been Truss would have been laughed out of town, not elected. Sunak inherited a party that had not so much pressed the … (View Post)

Sunak was another one who had competence but no charisma. Indeed, I would argue that he was a much better technocrat than Starmer has turned out to be. I have serious reservations about Burnham'… (View Post)

So, is Burnham going to play the long game and wait till next week before he removes Starmer or is he going to go for it now? A government that has been largely paralysed by indecision since it was e… (View Post)