Crace

Call it the phoney war. The government has long since stopped governing. Politics is now conducted entirely through the prism…

The end can’t come too soon. Not just for the Tory backbenchers, but for cabinet ministers too. They sit in…

It came billed as a landmark speech. Another one. And in a sense it was. Though not in the way…

Defections tend to be one-day wonders. An awkward photo op with your new party leader. Thirty minutes in the limelight…

Some things you just don’t see coming. Defections from the Tory party may be very on trend: just last month…

The last time most of us saw Rishi Sunak was on Friday lunchtime. He was surrounded by armoured vehicles. His…

There’s none so blind as politicians. Listen to them talk and you’d be forgiven for thinking they had been blessed…

It must be contagious. Just when you thought Westminster might have the monopoly on incompetence and chaos, along comes Humza…

Be careful what you wish for. It’s hard not to feel a scintilla of sympathy for Humza Yousaf. On a…

It had come billed as the great set-piece of the parliamentary week. Month even. With Rishi Sunak away in Germany…