Labour and SNP say investigation into ‘failures’ of Met police announced by home secretary lacks legal powersPriti Patel is facing demands from opposition politicians to announce a statutory inquiry into failings that allowed a serving Metropolitan pol…
The Guardian view on Insulate Britain: the art of protest | Editorial
Priti Patel’s plans to restrict civil liberties make it all the more important that activists keep the public on their sideA draconian police and crime bill is making its way through parliament, and on Tuesday the home secretary, Priti Patel, told her …
France threatens to cut UK and Jersey energy supply in fishing row
French government pushing EU to take stronger stance in dispute over access to Channel watersThe EU could hit Britain and Jersey’s energy supply over the UK’s failure to provide sufficient fishing licences to French fishers, France’s EU affairs ministe…
Windrush activists ‘disgusted’ after being turned away at Tory conference
Anthony Brown and Julia Davidson ‘humiliated’ after being shut out despite paying £225 for full accessTwo Windrush campaigners have said they felt humiliated and baffled after being refused access to the Conservative party conference in Manchester desp…
‘Bow to the king’: Conservatives kowtow to Boris Johnson
The apparently unassailable Tory leader inspires meek tranquility at his party’s conferenceAll the latest from the Tory conference – liveThere is normally a prince over the water at Conservative conference, the alternative attraction members flock to s…
Pathway to a sustainable economy | Letters
Dr Patrick O’Sullivan and Tony Brauer respond to George Monbiot’s claim that ‘there is no such thing as green growth’George Monbiot (‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe, 29 September) has written more …
Civil liberties groups criticise Priti Patel’s plan to criminalise protest
Home secretary plans to use policing bill to grant new powers to police to crack down on activistsCivil liberties groups have reacted with dismay to Priti Patel’s plan to criminalise protest groups, saying demonstrations are a “core pillar of any healt…
The Tories are cheering the voyage to a Brexit promised land that doesn’t exist | Rafael Behr
Boris Johnson’s foreign policy is a combination of pompous internationalism and wilful parochialismOne of the first comedy routines I can remember seeing was Les Dawson, on some Saturday night light entertainment show, playing the piano badly, which he…
BBC ‘a great national institution’, says Boris Johnson
Prime minister’s words a slapdown for culture secretary claiming BBC has ‘bias and nepotism’ problemsBoris Johnson said he believed the BBC would “be around for a long time to come”, in a view contrasting with that of his culture secretary, Nadine Dorr…
As the Pandora papers show, access to the Tory party is being bought by a new class of tycoon funders | Peter Oborne
In light of revelations in the Pandora papers, we need to be asking what are they getting in return?One big theme has dominated Tory party conference at Manchester this week: levelling up. Boris Johnson, we are being told, is on a mission to rescue Bri…