カテゴリー: Conservatives
We should quickly abandon wishful thinking in order to be truly ready for Rishi SunakThe world has watched in appalled fascination as the UK’s ruling party scrapes the bottom of its human resources barrel: it found there its first Black chancellor of t…
There is a complex story behind his arrival at No 10. The Conservatives worked hard to erase a hatred that went back to the era of ChurchillRishi Sunak’s arrival in No 10 is a more complex story than that of the first brown man to hold the highest offi…
Indians react to news UK will have its first Hindu PM and consider how it will affect bilateral tiesRishi Sunak to be UK PM – live news updatesSunak wins Tory leadership – full reportAs Rishi Sunak prepares to become the UK’s next prime minister at the…
On the frontline of Britain’s energy bills crisis. Plus: Visions of outer space Get the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home addressThe spiralling cost of living has been an increasingly urgent problem in the UK. But for many people, huge ri…
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson asks for restraint after Rishi Sunak labels country UK’s ‘biggest long-term threat’Beijing has urged British politicians to exercise restraint in their comments on China, saying “hyping the China threat” would not …
India’s abhorrent domestic policies are of no interest to this desperate governmentNarendra Modi and the Hindutva right are turning the world’s largest democracy into the world’s ugliest democracy. Muslims are denied the security of full citizenship. T…
Observers criticise optics of PM at factory while bulldozers seen in TV coverage of razing of settlementsBoris Johnson’s attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursd…
Row over breaching of lockdown rules rumbles on as PM begins two-day visit to discuss trade and securityAll the day’s politics news – as it happensBoris Johnson has insisted MPs should wait for the “full facts” before deciding whether to trigger a fres…
Second whistleblower suggests to committee that top civil servants lied to cover up episodeA second whistleblower has gone public to say it was “widespread knowledge” in government that Boris Johnson ordered the prioritisation of an animal charity base…
Tory MPs want ministers to follow health bill amendment banning goods from regions with ‘risk of genocide’Ministers are looking “sympathetically” at plans to stop the government buying health goods made in China’s Xinjiang province when the health and …
PM called claims he intervened to help evacuation of animal charity ‘complete nonsense’Boris Johnson’s battered credibility was thrown further into question after new Foreign Office emails appeared to contradict his insistence he did not authorise the …
MPs’ inquiry given further details of Britain’s mismanagement of Afghanistan exit with ‘people left to die at the hands of the Taliban’Further evidence alleging that the government seriously mishandled the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been handed to…
No 10 says Trudy Harrison gave permission as an MP rather than in her capacity as aide to Boris JohnsonAllies of animal charity boss Pen Farthing and a Labour MP have cast doubt on Downing Street claims about a letter by Boris Johnson’s parliamentary a…
Sir Philip Barton refused to say precisely when Raab had been on holiday in AugustThe head of the diplomatic service has admitted failing to show leadership after he began a three-week holiday two days before the Foreign Office internally accepted Kabu…
MPs said to have confronted home secretary over ‘moral obligation’ to deliver refugee programme announced in AugustPriti Patel is facing growing criticism from Tory MPs over the Home Office’s failure to open a programme to allow Afghans to resettle in …