Boris Johnson

Chancellor John Healey. Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Governments are not powerless and the markets are not almighty

Leave and Remain campaigners face off during the 2016 EU referendum, the centrepoint of the new BBC documentary series Brexit: A Very British Civil War (Picture: BBC/Zinc Television/Alamy/PA Images/Dominic Lipinski)

Farage and Johnson paint a turning point as playground politics

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Let’s hope Andy Burnham avoids the curse of mayor Boris - Vladimir McTavish

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The crazy world of Southfork Ranch is back on our screens - Vladimir McTavish

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave evidence to the Covid inquiry this week about the effect of the pandemic on young people. (Photo: Getty Images for Fortune Media)

Vladimir McTavish: Main Covid Inquiry lesson – never invite Boris Johnson back

Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, were interviewed on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Picture: BBC/Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg/PA Wire)

Doug and Michelle will easily find £122m down the back of the sofa - Vladimir Mc...

Boris Johnson addressing the nation from 10 Downing Street, as he placed the UK in lockdown during the Covid pandemic

The show still goes on for master illusionist Boris Johnson - Vladimir McTavish

More than 1,000 pupils in Florida, Philadelphia, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indiana, Texas and Connecticut. Educators say it is proving a powerful way to spark curiosity in science whilst keeping children entertained

Ad Feature Children’s book Making Science Magical reaches #1 on Amazon in US & UK

Former Tory defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace who has said he makes 'no apology' for applying for an injunction blocking reporting about the leak of data on Afghans who supported British forces. Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up after the breach (Picture: James Manning/PA Wire)

Adept at keeping the head down under fire - Vladimir McTavish

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage with his party's candidates during a campaign event in Stafford during last week's local elections in England (Picture: Jacob King/PA Wire)

To keep Scotland Farage-free, vote SNP - Angus Robertson

Dominic Cummings, former advisor to prime minister Boris Johnson, poses for photographers outside his home on January 24, 2022 in London (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Mostly the worst of times - Vladimir McTavish

Boris Johnson gives a thumbs up gesture after signing the Brexit trade deal with the EU in number 10 Downing Street on December 30, 2020 (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

A night of 'comedy' with Boris - Vladimir McTavish

A parishioner prays in St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv on Sunday (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Praying they did not die in vain - Steve Cardownie

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Why, I’d pay to not see Boris Johnson at the Usher Hall - Susan Morrison

Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria on the steps of Number 10

A dramatic year in politics - Ian Swanson

Some of the shadow cabinet appointed by new Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch

It's a wonder they didn’t spontaneously combust- Vladimir McTavish
A lot of people are struggling to understand how Americans in their millions were prepared to cast their votes for someone as morally repugnant, and clearly mentally-unstable as Donald Trump. We’ve all heard this joke before, and it’s just no longer funny.
Vladimir McTavish

Former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Jacob Rees-Mogg

VAT on private school fees? It’s enough to drive you to drink - Vladimir McTavis...

Housing is by far the largest source of carbon emissions coming from buildings in a city dominated by pre-war homes

Accounts Commission report reveals fantasy of council goals - John McLellan

Ian Rankin's new John Rebus thriller Midnight and Blue is out now

Never mind Bojo we all want to know how John Rebus is coping in prison - Susan D...

Boris Johnson’s memoir ‘should really be in the children’s section,’ says Vladimir McTavish (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Johnson’s Churchillian posturing couldn’t be further from the truth - Vladimir M...

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Shame we missed the Boris Johnson comedy TV show - Vladimir McTavish

Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick speaking during his Conservative Party leadership campaign launch

Vladimir McTavish: Conservative party leader – who would want a job like that?

Neil Kinnock falls over on Brighton seafront in 1983.

Funny political stunts gone wrong from elections past

Labour's cautious campaign is sign of its seriousness about power

The betting scandal is a particularly apt ending to fourteen years of rule by a party who regard government as a trip to the casino

You’d better believe Sunak’s spin on 14 years of Tory rule isn’t working - Vladi...

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has earned £56,000 since 2017 in fees as a linesman.

Changing face of the Ross party - Angus Robertson

Don't forget to vote on July 4

Make sure you don’t lose your general election vote on July 4 - Susan Dalgety
As a sodden Rishi Sunak walked back into Number 10 Downing Street last Wednesday, after announcing a general election on 4 July, I bet he was thinking about his summer holidays.
Susan Dalgety

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons following her defection to Labour (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Conservatives are unable to stop the boatloads of defectors - Vladimir McTavish

Vladimir's tram 'glided serenely' along Princes Street

Serene glide on the tram sees unfrazzled and stress-free airport arrival - Vladi...

Truss shows no remorse and blames 'economic establishment'

Rishi Sunak visits an apprentice training centre at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) on March 18 in Coventry

End the agony Rishi, call an election - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Some Tory MPs are keen for Boris Johnson to replace Rishi Sunak as leader

Some desperate Tories are plotting to bring back Boris Johnson - Steve Cardowni...

Rise & Fall of Boris Johnson review: Sticking the boot into former PM

Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson review: Sticking the boot into Boris Johnson

Liz Truss was ‘PM for less time than the shelf life of an iceberg lettuce’, says Vladimir McTavish

What’s the point of a pantomime if you don’t have a villain? - Vladimir McTavish

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon gives evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearing at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre

I know who I’d prefer in charge in a crisis and it isn’t Boris Johnson - Vladimi...

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WhatsApp Doc? Social platform messages are best forgotten - Vladimir McTavish

In the run up to the 2019 election Boris Johnson displayed some extremely silly behaviour including driving a forklift truck through a wall, dressing up as a milkman and hiding in a fridge

Politics is going to get very silly very soon in the long year ahead - Vladimir ...

Rishi Sunak during a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room, London.

Sunak’s pledges are proving pointless - Ian Murray

After succeeding Liz Truss as prime minister, Rishi Sunak hoped he would be seen as a fresh start - but it didn't work out that way. Picture: Jacob King / Getty.

Look ahead to 2024: an election year?

This quiz will reveal if you've been paying attention to 2023 news

25 funny and fiendishly difficult Christmas pub quiz questions

Home Secretary James Cleverly during a press conference with Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta after the signing of a new treaty in Kigali

Cleverly doesn’t begin to describe the Tories’ bonkers Rwanda policy - Vladimir ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla walking through the Members' Lobby at the Palace of Westminster following the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords

Charles goes through the motions of a deeply uninspiring King's Speech - Vladim...

Boris Johnson failed to take Covid seriously at first and then kept changing his mind on how to react to the deadly virus. Picture:Tolga Akmen - WPA Pool/Getty Images.

Covid inquiry shows full extent of Johnson's unfitness for government

In Edinburgh, for which the data goes up to October 22, 1,386 people were registered dead due to the coronavirus. Photo of the Covid wall in London, by PA.

Figures reveal local Covid deaths

There were astonishing quotes at the Covid Inquiry from (L-R) Boris Johnson, Lee Cain, Simon Case and Dominic Cummings. Picture: PA/Getty/Kim Mogg

I'd swear the Covid inquiry tells us little we didn’t already know - Vladimir M...

First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, arrives ahead of a Covid briefing at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh in 2021

WHY THE DELETION OF STURGEON’S COVID WHATSAPP MESSAGES COULD BE HER BIGGEST SCAN...

The then-Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wanted the virus to surge through the population

Pandemic proved Scotland’s elderly treated as second class citizens - Susan Dal...

Boris Johnson has revealed he is joining GB News (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Breaking Boris Johnson reveals he is joining GB News

Fines to be issued over Covid-19 lockdown-busting Tory HQ party

Breaking Fines to be issued over Covid-19 lockdown-busting Tory HQ party

Channel 4's Partygate told the story of the lockdown parties inside No.10 Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. From left, Grace Greenwood (played by Georgie Henley), Alice Lyons (Alice Orr-Ewing), Rory Baskerville (Tom Durant-Pritchard), Annabel D'Acre (Ophelia Lovibond), Josh Fitzmaurice (Hugh Skinner) (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

Channel 4's Partygate should leave you raging

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images.

Breaking Betrayal of the North: Boris Johnson hits out at PM on HS2

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Breaking Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He has made it clear the party has moved on from the Jeremy Corbyn era, but he has disappointed many by dropping popular policies like nationalisation of utilities and promising no new taxes on the rich.

Labour needs message of hope for toxic election

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