In insecure times, it pays to look at the bigger picture
Anthony Albanese’s decision to skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting to focus on NATO is no surprise.
Boris Johnson
Johnson delays reshuffle as MPs agitate for leadership coup
Boris Johnson will delay a cabinet reshuffle for several months after ministers warned him against destabilising his government further after last week’s two by-election defeats.
Boris Johnson’s slippery slope
Restive MPs are now looking at potential ways around the rule that bars another leadership challenge for 12 months.
Boris treads water as reshuffle looms
The British PM was caught by surprise when the chairman of the Conservative Party quit.
West must hold nerve in Ukraine
Boris Johnson’s call for Western leaders to steel themselves for a long war in Ukraine or risk the ‘greatest victory for aggression in Europe since World War II’ is worth heeding.
Hold your nerve, Boris tells world
Boris Johnson has urged Western leaders to steel themselves for a long war in Ukraine or risk the ‘greatest victory for aggression in Europe since World War II’.
Anger as UK rips up Brexit deal
UK government angers the EU by introducing new legislation, while Irish politicians threaten a fresh trade war and a reopening of Brexit divisions.
Johnson’s 100 days to stay in the saddle
The PM survived the confidence vote but has three months to convince his party he is still electable. He is clinging to research suggesting swing voters haven’t lost faith.
Don’t write Bojo off yet, he’s the comeback king
A Johnson recovery is unlikely. But absolutely everything about his career so far has been unlikely.
Johnson to help renters buy council homes
Updating a policy of Margaret Thatcher, the PM details a plan to enable more low-income renters to buy their own social housing.
Boris Johnson losing hold on levers of power
The UK prime minister’s authority will be hard to regain since 41 per cent of Tory MPs voted against him.
Boris in the dark on Maralinga
Boris Johnson has confessed to not knowing what or where Maralinga is, but has promised to look into releasing secret records.
Boris looks to reset leadership
The British Prime Minister will outline plans to tackle Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.
Johnson vows to focus on economy
Approval ratings for the PM have tanked amid a cost-of-living crisis and his attendance at parties during Covid-19 lockdowns.
We’re waiting for Johnson to fall: Hunt allies
The former foreign secretary has positioned himself as head of the Conservative party’s anti-Boris faction.
How Boris Johnson undid the Tory Party’s mythology
A party that was ruthless, pragmatic and efficient is now cowardly, incoherent and inept; sleepwalking towards 1997, when an exhausted, sleaze-ridden Tory government received a historic battering.
Boris is in trouble but we shouldn’t write him off just yet
What happens now? Nothing. Boris Johnson’s cabinet backs him and the rebels are a disparate, rudderless faction. In many ways, the PM is now more secure in office than he was.
Boris Johnson’s latest last chance
Beyond Partygate, the UK government is failing on big policy issues.
It’s now when, not if, Boris will be replaced
Boris Johnson has never inspired ideological loyalty like Margaret Thatcher and is therefore much more vulnerable if he is no longer seen as a vote-winner. Today’s result is a harbinger of doom.
Deeply wounded, Boris faces the beginning of the end
As a keen student of history Boris Johnson need only look at his predecessors to know his victory is no win at all.
‘Good, decisive’: Johnson hails victory over Tory rebels
Boris Johnson has welcomed his win in a confidence vote, but supporters fear he may have been mortally wounded.
Johnson to face no-confidence vote tonight
Boris Johnson’s rule as British Prime Minister could be over within hours after Tory MPs triggered a contest following a string of scandals.
A Greens MP loves Johnny Depp but no one likes Boris Johnson
All the news that’s fit to mint.
Boris’s ethics guru pulls threat to quit
Christopher Geidt, Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser, has decided to stay in the post despite a furious confrontation with the PM over the parties scandal.
Covid parties needed for morale: Johnson
The British Prime Minister said he had been ‘taken aback’ to be issued with a fine by police for attending one of the events.
PM’s guru on ethics threatens to resign
Boris Johnson says his claim in parliament there had been no parties was ‘conveyed in good faith’ and he has since corrected the record.
Tory knives out for Boris
Conservative rebels are increasingly optimistic about forcing a vote on Boris Johnson’s leadership next week.
Boris a drag on party: Tories
British PM Boris Johnson will make it more difficult for the Tories to win the next election after the Partygate scandal, a Conservative MP has said.
Boris pulls teeth from cabinet code
Breaching the standards rules will no longer be a reason for a British minister to quit the ministry.
Tory MPs calling for Boris to quit rise to 22
The threshold for a House of Commons vote on his leadership would be met when 54 Tory MPs submit letters of no confidence.
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