Swire’s diaries help show how Johnson entered Downing Street, and has so far managed to remain there

His capacity to win some of his severest critics round, and persuade them of his “greatness of soul”, helps explain his success.

The Conservatives should watch for a rival to their right

That was the norm of the past ten years, in the form of Farage’s parties. There’s no reason to assume that a new challenger won’t emerge.

Jason Reed: Who stands for freedom in America? Neither Trump nor Biden speak for me.

The nation’s discourse has tossed liberty aside, leaving its citizens with a stark choice between dangerous socialists and climate-denying racists.

Garvan Walshe: The virus shows the decline of Western democratic culture. Rebuilding it will take hard work.

Sensationalising data is all too common in politics. We have to end this trend if we want to keep people safe.

Interview. Bailey commits to reopening all 38 police stations that have closed under Khan.

“So there’s no doubt, we are the underdog. But the point is, the Mayor’s record is so terrible it’s allowed us an opportunity.”

Reshuffle 2) Iain Dale: It’s a scandal that Housing is now on its tenth Minister in ten years.

Chris Pincher, the new appointee, must stay in the post for the rest of this Parliament. It’s the only way that a strategy can be implemented properly.

A Waltzing Matilda Brexit?

It’s only Day Three – but Brussels is angling for a Britain with “the rights of Canada and the obligations of Norway”. Will there be a Managed No Deal instead?

WATCH: Stewart admits he was wrong to call three men “sort of minor gangsters”

“I apologised immediately, …and I shouldn’t have said that,” he confesses after he is told he is not JFK, he is more Michael Palin.

Bailey has three months to persuade Londoners he can cut crime

Showing that the current Mayor is failing is not enough. A strong alternative must be put forward.

“Boris put out his right hand softly and drew the sword out as gently as from a scabbard”.

His big win marks the end of the EU Ascendancy and the beginning of a new era: that of Britain as a sovereign nation.

National greatness

“It is easy to feel that we are an exhausted country that gave its best and last in the Second World… Read more »