The Latest Breaking News from Gordon Brown

It is generally assumed that the best candidates for the job of prime minister are people who have considerable experience of top-level politics. Ideally, this experience would involve having served in the cabinet and in particular, having occupied one of the “great offices of state” – chancellor of the exchequer,…

What does the Conservative membership want? Tax cuts? A war on woke? If the results of today’s YouGov survey are anything to go by, the answer is straightforward: Penny Mordaunt.

Analysis: after Johnson’s resignation, how does he compare with his four predecessors as PM?

In May 2010, Boris Johnson wrote a damning article slamming then Prime Minister Gordon Brown for clinging on inside No.10, eerily predicting his own current predicament

Five years into his job, the mayor of Greater Manchester is calling for a radical reinvention of the political system. He talks about his big ideas, confronting self-doubt – and the chances of him running for the Labour leadership

Mr Johnson has already outrun Gordon Brown.

Editorial: New analysis of the plight of millions of British children should shame ministers into action

THE House of Lords “must be abolished” and replaced with a regional senate instead, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has suggested.

Exclusive: Party leader to rule out talks with nationalists in attempt to spike Tory ‘coalition of chaos’ attacks