Tories and Labour

DON'T LOSE ACCESS:Your IP access to ForeignPolicy.com will expire on June 15. To ensure uninterrupted reading, please contact Rachel Mines, sales director, at rachel.mines@foreignpolicy.com. The United Kingdom’s ruling Conservative Party is facing a self-generated crisis after Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his old friend and special advisor Dominic Cummings, who…

The tumbril is ready and the guillotine is glistening for Dominic Cummings. The Left cannot wait for their hate figure – and most dangerous enemy – to be thrown into a cart and led off for a public execution.It is no coincidence that news of Cummings's 'lockdown bust' was broken by…

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Cyclists in Bournemouth and Poole will not be banned from cycling on the Dorset town’s promenade after the leader of the local council said she would not implement a threat made last week to stop people riding their bikes there. Last week, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council leader Vikki Slade…

Is this the start of a big left turn? The British death rate has been appalling. The politics of easing the lockdown – higher taxes, blurred rules – are already looking much harder than the politics of imposing it. The state has swollen hugely. You might assume, therefore, that the…

The national Covid strategy managed by the government is now in disarray. The mood in Tory HQ is migrating away from its beloved Brexit leader. The mainstream media are now causing confusion, the country is heading towards chaos. What is the general public supposed to believe when one mainstream newspaper…

With so much happening – not least growing concerns about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic – other matters pale in significance. Yet, there have been some startling recent revelations about just how truly awful the Conservative Party’s hostile environment has become. Over the last few months, parliamentary questions…

Conservative Party leader Michael Howard (L) and Scottish Conservative candidate for the Cathcart | Danny Lawson/PA Archive/PA Images The man behind the Democratic Unionist Party’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation has found himself caught up in a scandal involving a bankrupted British businessman, a convicted American fraudster, Texan oil wells, Scottish…

For a moment, imagine you live in a country where Labour won the last General Election and is now masterminding a national response to the coronavirus pandemic.That scenario is certainly in the minds of opponents of Boris Johnson, who have spent the past two months complaining relentlessly about the Government's…