The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

An odd couple they might seem, but from the word go Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s The Rest is Politics has been quite the runaway success. Hamish MacBain sits in for a chat

The UN World Food Programme director has warned that ‘50 million people in 45 countries are now just one step from famine’

Boris Johnson can draw some inspiration from his predecessors

Analysis: with his exit dragged out, will outgoing PM fumble governing or make problems for successor?

Tony Blair chose a Labour club in north-east England to announce his departure while David Cameron said he had to go after Brexit poll

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

We’re told from an early age that ‘quitters never win’. But is that always true?

Sir Winston Churchill, her first prime minister, is thought to be her favourite.

The bleak fate of many Opposition leaders is to be remembered as necessary but not sufficient. Yes, they advanced the cause of their powerless parties. Their work made a difference and was essential to electoral recovery; but not so much that they themselves made it to the promised land.

Exclusive: IFS study shows impact of Tory cuts to benefits and cost of living crisis on single mothers

We desperately need to rejoin the single market and customs union, whatever the former PM thinks