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OPINION - Rishi Sunak doubles down on small boats — but is anyone listening?

The 2001 general election was a disaster for the Conservatives. After four years in opposition, a young new leader and the twin crises of fuel protests and foot and mouth disease, the party achieved a swing of just 1 per cent and a net gain of a single seat, taking…

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2023

OPINION - Keir Starmer brands Diane Abbott’s comments “antisemitic”

The thing to understand is they really mean it. Of course, politicians often dodge and dissemble, but they also hold beliefs that they hope to enact when in power.

Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2023

OPINION - Humza Yousaf wins SNP leadership election

Succession is the final act of leadership. For as long as power has been concentrated in the hands of mortals, men and women have sought to ensure they are followed by their chosen heir – perhaps an oldest child or political protégé. But if you want to make god laugh,…

Evening Standard · Mar 27, 2023

Putin strikes Kyiv in ‘revenge’ for bridge attack

Kyiv and cities throughout Ukraine fell under renewed Russian aerial bombardment today, with the death toll reaching 11 people and dozens more injured. Targets from Moscow’s so-called ‘high-precision’ weaponry aimed at apparently ‘critical military infrastructure’ included children’s playgrounds, pedestrian bridges and parks.

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2022

King Charles III leads procession behind the Queen’s coffin

If there is one building that exemplifies the great sweep of English (later British) history and the pitch battles – sometimes literally – that marked the development of constitutional monarchy in this country, it is Westminster Hall.

Evening Standard · Sep 12, 2022

Tory leadership debate cancelled while London burns

There was something deeply weird about last night’s ITV leadership debate. Not the moment Rishi Sunak asked Liz Truss what presumably his team thought would be a zinger:

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2022

What a winker! The best reactions to that Dominic Raab wink

“I feel soiled”

Evening Standard · Jun 30, 2022

Citymapper status update: don’t bother

Now is not the time for drop intros – we can leave those at home – but if you read only one piece on the rail and Tube strikes, make it this one by transport journalist Christian Wolmar.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

Boris Johnson makes 11th hour plea to MPs ahead of no-confidence vote

In professional sport, victory is everything. But for connoisseurs, there is a particular pleasure to be found in a scrappy, ill-begotten, near miscarriage of justice 1-0 wins that no 5-0 drubbing can match.

Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2022