However badly Boris Johnson’s government performs, it will continue to benefit from older voters’ desire for certaintyAs Conservatives return home from their annual conference, they have good reasons to feel cheerful. Their national insurance increase …
Keir Starmer: universal credit cut is an attack on the poorest
Labour leader says Boris Johnson’s decision to remove £20 uplift comes at ‘worst possible time’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has been accused by Keir Starmer of “turning on the poorest” as Britain eases out o…
‘Total loss of confidence’: Franco-British relations plumb new depths
Analysis: insiders say French belief that No 10 cannot be trusted has intensified amid Brexit, Covid, migration and AukusThe British embassy in Paris held a splendid James Bond soiree this week, guests in black tie and evening dress sipping Bollinger a…
Steve Bell on Boris Johnson’s conference performance – cartoon
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Voters preferred Keir Starmer’s conference speech to Boris Johnson’s address, poll suggests – UK politics live
Latest updates: polling by Opinium suggests Labour leader’s conference address made a better impression on voters, amid mixed reaction to the PM’s speechPupils may have to wear masks again if Covid cases rise, says Zahawi‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s…
Shapeshifting Tories have mastered playing to the crowd, while Labour fights itself | Owen Jones
As Boris Johnson mixes public investment with a culture war, Keir Starmer fails to offer a viable alternativeTo be a Tory is to be a shapeshifter. The Conservatives are one of the world’s most successful electoral forces because they are always attempt…
Boris Johnson’s ‘high wage’ agenda is taking the wind out of Labour’s sails | Larry Elliott
The PM thinks his interventionist approach to the economy is a winning formula. Without a coherent opposition, he could be rightThere’s nothing original about saying Britain needs a new economic model. Nor that poverty wages should be a thing of the pa…
Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson riding the burning pig of crisis
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‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception
Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Business leaders rounded on Boris Johnson for lacking a coherent economic plan after he delivered a boosterish conference speech that made barely a men…
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s speech: no joke when there’s no plan | Editorial
The prime minister’s address went long on gags but short on how to deal with the crises confronting the countryBoris Johnson’s speech to the Conservative party conference was marked by the two traits that have allowed him to dominate recent British pol…