Clip shows Theresa May attempt Scottish accent in first Lords speech THERESA May tried her hand at a Scottish accent as she mimicked a Tory colleague during her House of Lords maiden speech ... The National (Scotland) · Oct 24, 2024
Theresa May attempts Scottish accent in House of Lords maiden speech There was laughter as the Tory peer impersonated her ‘mentor’ Baroness Goldie in recounting a funny story. Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2024
UK’s new industrial strategy shows welcome signs of pragmatism. But the watchdog must have teeth Rachel Reeves’s green paper seems to take policy more seriously than Tory predecessors The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024
Has Boris Johnson new respect for women? Let’s ask the one he calls ‘old grumpy knickers’ In his memoir, the great inseminator has little good to say about the women around him The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024
Justice ‘highly unlikely’ over Salisbury novichok attack, says Theresa May Ahead of opening of inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess, former PM says attackers showed ‘utter recklessness’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024
‘I felt like Achilles in a hard hat’: an extract from Boris Johnson’s ‘alternative’ memoir Unleashed, the former PM’s account of his days in office, is published today. But the comedy writer Ian Martin has offered his own version of events in Unhinged: A Parody The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2024
Campaigners welcome Angela Rayner’s bill to ban no-fault evictions Anti-homelessness charity Shelter said 11 million renters in England have been ‘ignored or shouted down’ after sounding the alarm about the broken system for years The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2024
Trump took ‘British naval secrets’ to Mar-a-Lago, says Christopher Steele Former UK spy says in new book Trump ‘apparently unauthorizedly’ took secrets with him The Guardian - US · Oct 8, 2024
This is getting silly now! Why won’t politicians stop ripping off The West Wing? Argentina’s president Javier Milei has become the latest dignitary to be rumbled borrowing from a Jed Bartlet speech. It wouldn’t happen here though … would it? The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2024
‘If I have a fault, it’s that I’m too honest’ – Boris Johnson’s Unleashed, digested by John Crace The former prime minister has given us a thrilling insight into his own narcissism. Can’t face reading it? All the parties, scandals and incompetence are broken down here The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2024
Amber Rudd: Boris’s split personality is revealed in his memoir – he’s more Beano than Gladstone In cabinet, the former minister wanted to hold a mirror up to Boris Johnson and regularly saw his mask slip. As his new memoir is published full of wild untruths and shameless exaggeration, she writes, readers will be left wondering if a real Boris exists at all The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2024
Argentina’s Javier Milei accused of plagiarising UN speech from West Wing Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 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
Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024
The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2024 Liz Truss claims she would have secured better Tory result at general election than Rishi Sunak Former PM claims she could have delivered better result for Tories if she had clung on to power
The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2024 Tory grandees warn of ‘monumental’ party rebuild as infighting breaks out on eve of conference Theresa May and William Hague say Tory leadership contenders need to acknowledge the scale of the defeat in July
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024 Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir Former PM likens Keir Starmer to ‘a bullock having a thermometer unexpectedly shoved in its rectum’ in Unleashed
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2024 Tories were too focused on Reform to see Lib Dem threat, Theresa May says Former PM says leadership candidates must understand that party lost election because it ‘trashed our brand’
The National (Scotland) · Sep 27, 2024 Sausages, dad-dancing and freebies: Can Labour recover from party conference? THE ideal party conference, especially if you've just won a massive landslide just a few months ago, should be unmemorable.
Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024 OPINION - Robert Peston: Keir Starmer is fast approaching his big moment of judgment In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…
The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2024 Theresa May denounces Trump, Farage and Le Pen over climate change ‘hoax’ claims Far-right leaders in Europe and the US are trying to wreck measures to save the planet, Theresa May warns. They want to ‘stir up a culture war’ to win votes, says the former PM, who criticises Trump for calling climate change ‘a hoax’ – and accuses Nigel Farage of ‘politicising’…
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024 Archbishop says God is green and pleads with leaders to: ‘Act now before it is too late to save the world’ Defiant Welby says he won’t be silenced: ‘If it is interfering to seek to avert the climate change catastrophe, let us interfere’
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024 Grenfell bereaved demand answers over Theresa May’s decision to call public inquiry ahead of police probe Exclusive: Grenfell Next of Kin claim former prime minister’s decision ‘had massive consequences on our pursuit of our justice’
Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2024 OPINION - Keir Starmer's sloganeering gave me horrible flashbacks to Theresa May The clue is in the name. The “mission-driven” government to which Keir Starmer is ostensibly committed is meant to be defined by its strategic objectives and the steps by which they will be achieved in his “decade of renewal”.
The Conversation · Sep 6, 2024 Grenfell report: the risk of holding everyone to account is no one actually gets the blame Former prime minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry into the Grenfell fire just 24 hours after the tragedy in June 2017. That the project was set in motion while emergency services were still at the scene underlined a broad sense of shock and disbelief that a catastrophe of such…