Queen Elizabeth Had a Surprising Favorite Household Chore That You'll Never See Coming "I'm not making this up," a former prime minister said of the late Queen's normal-person habit. Marie Claire · Jun 30, 2025
Farage ‘plans to put business leaders in cabinet’ if Reform wins power Labour prime minister Keir Starmer hits out at Reform UK leader, dubbing him a ‘wolf in Wall Street clothing’ who has ‘no idea what he's talking about’ The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2025
Zia Yusuf accuses Robert Jenrick of ‘faking right-wing pivot’ to damage Reform UK The two rivals mocked each other for being a ‘clown and ‘useless’ on X, formerly Twitter Evening Standard · Jun 27, 2025
Cross-party body seeks to tackle divisions in wake of 2024 summer riots Co-chairman and former community secretary Sir Sajid Javid said successive governments had treated social cohesion as a ‘second-tier issue’. Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2025
Voices: Readers have their say on reversing Brexit – from rejoining EU ‘tomorrow’ to ‘letting more time pass’ YOUR VIEWS: Our community largely agrees that Brexit was a mistake, but whether the UK should rejoin the EU remains deeply debated, with some calling it ‘a pipe dream’ as others admit they’d ‘vote to rejoin tomorrow’ The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2025
Grenfell Uncovered on Netflix review: this litany of failures is rage-inducing 4/5 Eight years after the disaster, this documentary examines how we got there, to devastating effect Evening Standard · Jun 19, 2025
How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it’s time to listen to Nigel Farage Labour now says the botched high-speed rail project will be further delayed. Why not just scrap it, as the Reform leader suggests? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2025
Why Keir Starmer risks making the same mistake as David Cameron when it comes to Europe ANALYSIS : After the former prime minister’s failed attempts to reform the EU in order to see off the threat of Eurosceptics within his party, Archie Mitchell asks whether Keir Starmer will come to regret opening the door to reforming the ECHR The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2025
Voices: Starmer and Reeves are back from the brink – here’s what they must do next INSIDE WESTMINSTER: After a spending review that came as a relief to many Labour backbenchers, the government must now start making the case for the ‘inevitable’ tax rises in the autumn that will be needed to deliver better public services, says Andrew Grice The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2025
Digested week: Remorseless Reeves and Sarah Vine’s masterpiece of self-delusion Sorry is the hardest word at Westminster, while Daily Mail columnist’s memoir is an exercise in score-settling The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025
Credit Suisse was ‘warned’ about Greensill three years before firm collapsed Anonymous messages questioned judgment of senior managers in dealing with Greensill, says Swiss regulator The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025
UK MPs react to report alleging David Cameron ‘threatened’ ICC withdrawal Cameron told ICC’s Khan arrest warrants for Israeli officials would be like ‘dropping hydrogen bomb’, media report says. Al Jazeera · Jun 11, 2025
How to make a white lady, David Cameron's favourite cocktail, according to Sarah Vine The former Prime Minister apparently loves a white lady in the evening Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2025
DHSC’s £122m claim against Michelle Mone-linked company reaches high court Government is seeking to recover money paid to PPE Medpro, which was recommended to ministers by peer The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2025 How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal She was Michael Gove’s wife and Samantha Cameron’s best friend. But then Brexit happened
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025 Lex Greensill says SoftBank managers ‘felt threatened’ by his links to founder Financier tells court he travelled to Tokyo ‘often weekly’ for mentoring sessions with Masayoshi Son
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025 Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial Cases filed by two Guantánamo Bay prisoners allege MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment
The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2025 Kemi Badenoch admits she is still learning how to lead the Tories: ‘It takes a while’ Conservative Party leader likens herself to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron as she says it takes time to get to grips with the role
The Conversation · Jun 5, 2025 Mel Stride promises the Tories won’t repeat the mistakes of Liz Truss – except they already have It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…
Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025 No Madame Tussauds waxwork for Starmer over fears he will become 'irrelevant' despite replicas for other PMs Attraction currently has no plans to make a figure of the prime minister, a spokesperson for the museum said
Euronews · Jun 3, 2025 SXSW London accused of ‘artwashing’ for hosting unannounced panels with Tony Blair and David Cameron The participation of former British prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron were hidden from the public line-up of the inaugural edition of the festival SXSW London. This has prompted several artists to pull out and criticise the festival.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025 Robert Jenrick has been on a bizarre political journey. It’s made him incredibly dangerous Once a pro-remain Cameronite, he’s now engaging with the far right – and he’s in pole position for the Tory leadership, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025 Leaked emails and fallouts with the Camerons: the biggest revelations from Sarah Vine's new political memoir Run-ins with Jeremy Clarkson, partying in Ibiza and death threats in the post — Sarah Vine’s new memoir is full of details about life on the frontline of politics
Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025 OPINION - Rivalry, resentment, entitlement and a girl crush — the extracts from Sarah Vine’s memoir remind us what really matters in politics Forget every other reading matter – put down your 250th anniversary copy of Pride and Prejudice and toss Bill Clinton’s thriller, First Gentleman, to one side – because the required reading right now is the extracts now being published from Sarah Vine’s memoir, How Not to be a Political Wife.
Evening Standard · May 28, 2025 Simon Cowell's fiancée reveals why they don't hang out with the Beckhams in the Cotswolds The Britain’s Got Talent judge, his partner and their 11-year-old son Eric live in a lavish £8 million farmhouse in Oxfordshire