Theresa May, Graham Brady and Chris Grayling among new nominees to the House of Lords
Former prime minister Theresa May, former cabinet minister Chris Grayling and senior Conservative backbencher Sir Graham Brady are among those set to receive dissolution peerages. A notice released at 9.00 pm read: “The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned: Nominations […]
Theresa May joins the Conservative exodus
The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, subscribe here and never miss this daily briefing. Will the last Conservative MP in parliament please turn out the lights? Former prime minister Theresa May has today announced she will go the way of fellow Tory big beasts Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab and Ben Wallace (among others) […]
‘It has been an honour’: Theresa May to stand down as MP at next election
Former prime minister Theresa May has said she will be standing down as an MP at the next election. In a statement, she said she had taken the “difficult decision” to vacate her Maidenhead seat after 27 years. Read the ex-PM’s statement in full below: It has been an honour and a privilege to serve […]
Theresa May urges government ‘not to roll backwards’ on net zero commitment
Theresa May has said the “best long-term decision” the government can make is on climate change.
Gillian Keegan’s F-bomb outburst is the latest in a long line of ‘hot mic’ political blunders
Pressure is mounting on Rishi Sunak after his education secretary was caught on camera saying others had “sat on their a***” over the Raac concrete scandal. In footage released by ITV News, Gillian Keegan appeared to criticise her colleagues, adding she should be praised for doing a “good job”. Keegan might have thought otherwise, but […]
Week-in-Review: The anatomy of Theresa May’s ‘small boats’ intervention
The illegal migration bill cleared its final commons stage by 289 votes to 230 on Wednesday as an inter-Conservative party battle over amendments and the role of the European Court of Human Rights failed to materialise. The relative quiet of Wednesday’s vote reflects, in part, the number and breadth of concessions No 10 had made […]
From Cameron to Sunak: The long history of Conservative infighting over onshore wind
The winds of change are blowing through the Conservative party — or is it a hurricane? Under proposals announced on Tuesday evening, the government is set to reverse the de facto ban on onshore wind farm development first introduced under David Cameron in 2015. In the end, it took just weeks of campaigning from Simon […]
‘The Hillsborough families deserve this’ – Ministers debate changes to criminal justice system
“They don’t want to see other people having that same experience. We owe it to them.”
Aid cuts pass, despite May voting against due to ‘broken promise’
“We made a promise to the poorest people in the world. The government has broken that promise.”
Don’t start pining for Theresa May: she was unspeakably dire and this disaster’s on her
Britain’s next prime minister could mishandle Brexit just as badly, but it changes nothing about Theresa May’s unforgivable premiership
