Boris Johnson

Oct 18, 2025
Katie Lam MP poses for a portrait with her arms crossed.
Katie Lam: head girl, immigration hardliner — and the Tories’ new hope

Touted as a potential Tory leader, the rookie MP is a practising Christian who also has a side career in musical theatre and has written five commercial shows

The Sunday Times
Oct 17, 2025
Dominic Cummings, wearing a cap, glasses, and a blue hoodie over a t-shirt with a sun emblem, holds a red "Vote Leave" mug and looks up.
Dominic Cummings: ‘Starmer’s rubbish at politics and will be gone next year’

The former aide to Boris Johnson pulls no punches in his assessment of the current state of British politics

The Times
Oct 16, 2025
Aerial view of the Pensana rare earth refiner site with tents and modular buildings in a reddish-brown landscape, backed by a green mountain.
Rare earths refiner Pensana scraps plans for $250m Hull plant

Promise of £5 million UK government grant was insufficient to make the project viable, says company chairman, and it now aims to build the plant in America

The Times
Oct 15, 2025
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and special advisor Dominic Cummings arrive at Parliament.
EXCLUSIVE
Whitehall data breach gave secrets to Chinese

Boris Johnson’s former adviser claims that Beijing ‘stole’ classified state secrets and senior officials deliberately ‘buried’ the breach

The Times
a man wearing glasses and a blue suit stands with his arms crossed
The crucial Thatcher lesson is to let economic thinking lead

The former Conservative prime minister, who would have been 100 this week, took economics seriously as the foundation of governing

The Times
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Oct 10, 2025
Nick Candy at his central London office, wearing a Farage 10 cap.
INTERVIEW
Nick Candy puts his money where his mouth is with £1m gift to Reform UK

He has been called ‘all talk and no trousers’, but the property developer is standing by his pledge

The Times
Oct 8, 2025
Conservative peer Michael Heseltine departs the annual Conservative Party conference.
CONFERENCE DIARY
Lord Heseltine still has pulling power among the Tory faithful

Plus: Kemi Badenoch’s bonkbuster education; history-making former prime ministers; and the ghost of leadership challengers past

The Times
Oct 6, 2025
Richard Fuller, Chairman of the Conservative Party, addressing delegates.
Shadow Treasury minister suggests means-testing state pension

Richard Fuller told a Tory conference fringe event the pension could be means-tested. There are calls in the party to reconsider the triple lock annual increase

The Times
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WILLIAM HAGUE
Without young voters, the Tories are sunk

The party needs economic policies that chime with under-40s, with an emphasis on opportunity and aspiration

The Times
Oct 5, 2025
Boris Johnson speaking at the launch of the COP26 UN Climate Summit.
Boris Johnson admits getting ‘carried away’ in pursuit of net zero

The former prime minister says he went ‘too fast’ when setting climate change targets but cutting emissions is still important, even if 2050 is unrealistic

The Times

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Oct 18, 2025
Katie Lam: head girl, immigration hardliner — and the Tories’ new hope

Touted as a potential Tory leader, the rookie MP is a practising Christian who also has a side career in musical theatre and has written five commercial shows

The Sunday Times
Oct 17, 2025
Dominic Cummings: ‘Starmer’s rubbish at politics and will be gone next year’

The former aide to Boris Johnson pulls no punches in his assessment of the current state of British politics

The Times
Oct 16, 2025
Rare earths refiner Pensana scraps plans for $250m Hull plant

Promise of £5 million UK government grant was insufficient to make the project viable, says company chairman, and it now aims to build the plant in America

The Times
Oct 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE
Whitehall data breach gave secrets to Chinese

Boris Johnson’s former adviser claims that Beijing ‘stole’ classified state secrets and senior officials deliberately ‘buried’ the breach

The Times
Oct 15, 2025
The crucial Thatcher lesson is to let economic thinking lead

The former Conservative prime minister, who would have been 100 this week, took economics seriously as the foundation of governing

The Times
ADVERTISEMENT
Oct 10, 2025
INTERVIEW
Nick Candy puts his money where his mouth is with £1m gift to Reform UK

He has been called ‘all talk and no trousers’, but the property developer is standing by his pledge

The Times
Oct 8, 2025
CONFERENCE DIARY
Lord Heseltine still has pulling power among the Tory faithful

Plus: Kemi Badenoch’s bonkbuster education; history-making former prime ministers; and the ghost of leadership challengers past

The Times
Oct 6, 2025
Shadow Treasury minister suggests means-testing state pension

Richard Fuller told a Tory conference fringe event the pension could be means-tested. There are calls in the party to reconsider the triple lock annual increase

The Times
Oct 6, 2025
WILLIAM HAGUE
Without young voters, the Tories are sunk

The party needs economic policies that chime with under-40s, with an emphasis on opportunity and aspiration

The Times
Oct 5, 2025
Boris Johnson admits getting ‘carried away’ in pursuit of net zero

The former prime minister says he went ‘too fast’ when setting climate change targets but cutting emissions is still important, even if 2050 is unrealistic

The Times

Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party in July 2019. He entered parliament while editing The Spectator, became mayor of London in 2008 and later foreign secretary between 2016 and 2018. Johnson led the campaign for Brexit and saw it through as prime minister. In 2022 he became the first British prime minister found to have broken the law in office, receiving a fixed-penalty notice for attending his own birthday party during a coronavirus lockdown. In July 2022 Johnson resigned as prime minister following a wave of resignations by Tory MPs in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against the Tory MP Chris Pincher.