UK ‘long overdue’ a conversation about NHS funding, says Javid Sir Sajid said the country ‘cannot afford’ to ‘bury our heads in the sand’. Evening Standard · Jul 14, 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
Sky News' Beth Rigby says she 'love-bombed' Ruth Davidson at Tory event SKY News political editor Beth Rigby has confessed she “love-bombed” former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson during a leadership campaign… The National (Scotland) · Apr 7, 2025
Soaring UK crime costing up to £250bn a year, says thinktank Policy Exchange report blames austerity for breakdown in policing and criminal justice The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025
Cross-party body will seek to rebuild UK community cohesion after riots New commission led by Sajid Javid and John Denham aims to speak to millions following unrest over Southport attack The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025
Who is Torsten Bell? The new pensions minister pegged as Britain's future chancellor From being one half of Britain’s most influential political twin duo, to his role in the infamous ‘EdStone’, Emma Loffhagen reports on Torsten Bell, the former think tank director promoted to pensions minister Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025
The week in audio: Today’s guest editors; A Point of View; Monstrosities Mon Amour; Shipping Forecast Day – review Radio 4’s Today guest editors ranged from the glum to the glorious, while the station truly excelled in a day-long celebration of the Shipping Forecast at 100 The Guardian - UK · Jan 4, 2025
Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis More than 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last seven years, according to analysis by the PA news agency. Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2024
Muslims Don’t Matter by Sayeeda Warsi review – a stinging rebuke to former colleagues Islamophobia is rife, says the former cabinet minister, with Conservative hypocrisy and inaction partly to blame The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024
Conservative government was ‘asleep at the wheel’ in relation to maternity safety, says top midwife Nottingham families call for individual staff to be held criminially accountable for failing The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2024
Shamima Begum: supreme court refuses to hear UK citizenship appeal Begum’s lawyers argued she was trafficked as 15-year old, which authorities should have prevented The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2024
‘A difficult hand played poorly’: how No 10 slipped from Sunak’s grasp Initial Brexit success was undone by poor strategy and repeated unforced errors, say expert observers The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024
Sajid Javid to become partner at investment firm Centricus Former chancellor cleared for role by body examining propriety of ministers taking jobs in private sector The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2024
Tory MPs paid £100,000 of public funds to party’s in-house web designers Exclusive: Conservatives including Hunt and Truss used Bluetree for websites and claimed costs as expenses The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024
Evening Standard · Jun 14, 2024 OPINION - If you knew Keir Starmer's father was a toolmaker, this newsletter is for you Sadiq Khan and Sajid Javid's fathers: bus drivers. Theresa May and Gordon Brown's: clergymen. John Major's: a music hall performer. If you knew any of these, congratulations, you are a deeply weird person. In fact, even if you didn't, you are still a little strange because you subscribe to a…
Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024 Will Michael Gove do Strictly? All the rumoured next jobs for Tory MPs They ran the country, but now they’re moving on. What’s next for Matt Hancock, Sajid Javid, Nadhim Zahawi, Dominic Raab, and the rest?
The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024 Senior UK politicians call for greater scrutiny of potential Shein IPO Concerns London listing of retailer facing forced labour allegations goes ahead while parliament is dissolved
The Independent UK · May 19, 2024 Mapped: All the MPs standing down at general election as Michael Gove and John Redwood join the exodus More than 120 MPs have decided to quit ahead of the next general election - including likes of Angela Leadsom and Theresa May
The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024 Outgoing Tory MPs take lucrative second jobs and ‘swan off on jollies’ Sixty four Tories and four independent MPs who lost party whip plan to stand down from the Commons amid dire polling for Conservatives
The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024 MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy Rishi Sunak suffers blow to his authority as 57 of his own MPs vote against his plan and over 100 abstain
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024 So many senior Tory MPs quitting at general election that they could fill all the top Cabinet posts Former PM Theresa May, ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, former-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and ex-Home Secretary Sir Sajid Javid are all leaving the Commons
The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024 Both Labour and group of Conservative MPs say Lee Anderson defection highlights Tory failings – as it happened Reform UK confirms Lee Anderson, former Conservative MP and ex-deputy chair, has defected to join party
The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024 Three Tory ex-home secretaries warn against politicising anti-extremism Exclusive: Intervention by Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd comes just before Michael Gove is due to unveil official definition of extremism
The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024 Tory MPs criticise plans for memorial to Muslim soldiers who died in world wars Exclusive: Marco Longhi and Jill Mortimer, allies of Lee Anderson, question Jeremy Hunt setting aside £1m for tribute
Evening Standard · Mar 5, 2024 Historian Julian Jackson wins the Duff Cooper prize for non-fiction His editor got a laugh at the ceremony for a jibe at Michael Gove