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Channel Four is recording a fun new show before Nadine Dorries flogs it off. Make Me Prime Minister features Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s famous spin doctor, and Baroness Warsi, former Tory party chair, putting plucky members of the public through their paces to see if they’ve got what it takes…

Britain’s top family doctor to warn of ‘most worrying crisis in decades’ with shrinking numbers of GPs and soaring demand

He reflected on the agreement as he attended the unveiling of a new portrait of him

The former First Minister was speaking as a new portrait of him was unveiled at the Queen’s University Belfast.

Defeat for the Tories in two key byelections shows that tactical voting could put safe seats in play if replicated at a general election

The scale of byelection defeats in Tiverton and Honiton in south-west England and Wakefield in the north of England might have Conservative rebels wishing they had waited a few weeks to hold a no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson. For the 148 MPs who voted against him, these results might have…

Boris Johnson’s party is “in trouble” but Sir Keir Starmer has yet to spark the “crucial ingredient” of enthusiasm for Labour which led to Tony Blair’s 1997 victory, according to one of Britain’s leading elections experts

Politicians have always pandered. But lately, political stunts, from Trump’s wall to Johnson’s Rwanda flights, have taken a darker turn

It’s vital to avoid a false choice between peace and justice, says Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s chief negotiator on Northern Ireland

Is Oliver Dowden, the Conservative Party chairman, right? Are these Labour’s strikes? The short answer is no. The Tories are in government, have been so for the last 12 years while the RMT isn’t even affiliated with the Labour Party, expelled as it was in 2004 for reasons you couldn’t…