The atmosphere in Westminster this morning continues to be febrile. Following a set of local election results that can only be described as a “drubbing,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer finds himself in the most precarious position of his political career. The internal
In the high-stakes theatre of international diplomacy, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been playing a losing hand. After initially cosying up to the US President and rolling out the red carpet for a second state visit last year and basking in the
The division bell that rang through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster yesterday afternoon carried with it the weight of a government fighting to preserve its moral authority. While the tally eventually fell in favour of the Prime Minister, with 335
Yesterday, Sir Philip Barton, the former permanent under-secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), delivered a series of startling revelations to the Foreign Affairs Committee about the appointment process of Peter Mandelson. In highly charged session, Sir Philip laid bare
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer finds himself yet again facing a bruising day in Parliament, over his decision to appoint disgraced peer Lord Mandelson to the role of US Ambassador. The crisis will reach a fever pitch tomorrow, after the Speaker Lindsay
If you listen closely enough to Westminster this week, you can hear more than the usual hum of aides, advisers and overworked officials. You can hear the sound of a government that keeps insisting it is calm and disciplined while everyone around
The atmosphere in the House of Commons this Monday reached a fever pitch as Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced a wall of condemnation over the security vetting scandal involving Lord Mandelson. In a session marked by raw anger and historic ejections, the
The promise of a new dawn for British politics, centred on a restoration of trust and a departure from the perceived chaos of the previous fourteen years, appears to be crumbling under the weight of historical associations and modern-day scandals. Sir Keir
The central fact is stark enough on its own, Lord Peter Mandelson was denied developed vetting on 28 January 2025, that decision was then overruled by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Mandelson was informed on 30 January 2025 that he had
The mood in the Government this week is decidedly grim, and it isn’t just because of the usual internal bickering, the prospect of difficult elections or the stalled economy. A missile has just been fired into the heart of Downing Street by
As a plane took off from RAF Brize Norton early today, it carried a sense of guarded optimism few in the Foreign Office would have expected even two days earlier. As Prime Minister Keir Starmer boarded the flight bound for the Gulf,
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, was dealt a hammer blow yesterday, when the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court quashed the ban on people living on the outer islands. In a landmark ruling, Justice
