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Boris and Carrie The Prime Minister and his fiancee Carrie Symonds are at the heart of this crisis. Prime ministers get an annual budget of up to PS30,000 for renovations, [...]

THERESA MAY woke up to a barrage of negative headlines across Europe as newspapers reacted to the political turmoil in the UK. She featured on front pages from Russia to [...]

THE British people were asked last year whether we should remain in or leave the European Union. Although the majority of Londoners wanted to remain, the country by a small [...]

Byline: Tom Harper ONE of Britain's most powerful newspaper editors today launched a stinging attack on David Cameron and criticised his relationship with the Murdoch empire. Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of [...]

Byline: Craig Woodhouse and Joe Murphy CABINET Office minister Oliver Letwin today promised to stop dumping official documents in public rubbish bins after he was caught disposing of letters in [...]

IS MARK Malloch Brown trying to pull out all the pegs from GordonBrown's big tent? On Wednesday the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister,who was one of the Prime Minister's key [...]

THE TIMES Normally, political leaders have too much respect. They have respect for their activists... and political leaders have respect for the voters. Labour now lacks, under Gordon Brown, the [...]

Normally, political leaders have too much respect. They have respect for their activists... and political leaders have respect for the voters. Labour now lacks, under Gordon Brown, the patience and [...]

Byline: Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor DAVID CAMERON sparked a fresh foreign policy row today when he said Pakistan should not be allowed 'to promote the export of terror' across [...]

Byline: Jonathan Prynn THE Queen has chosen the Evening Standard to keep up with all the election news days before she asks Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn to form a [...]

Byline: Robbie Griffiths HAS Tony Blair's life after Downing Street been 'one long prime ministerial cosplay'? That's the tragi-comic verdict of a new deep dive on Blair's Institute for Global [...]

EXAM boards that make mistakes when setting papers will face the 'toughest possible action', the Prime Minister said today. It comes after three more problems were spotted in papers taken [...]

Byline: Philip Collins Y OU can always tell that politics is about to enter a new phase because suddenly the Prime Minister makes himself available for a Sunday morning interview. [...]

Byline: Justin Davenport NEW claims that the Prime Minister's media adviser knew of illegal phonetapping while he was editor of the News of the World were denied today. The New [...]

WHO would you like to have a drink in the pub with? It's the question pollsters often ask the public to work out which politicians they like. There's no doubt [...]

Byline: Nicholas Cecil Political Editor RISHI SUNAK was hit by a growing storm today as William Hague led senior Tories in condemning as 'racist' a party donor's rant against Diane [...]

Byline: Roy Greenslade IN 1945, when the first post-war election was held, it was assumed by most of the press barons of that era that Winston Churchill would win. However, [...]

Byline: Stephen King T was the phrase on everyone's lips. I We were going to 'Build Back Better'. Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Greenpeace, the [...]

Byline: Matthew d'Ancona P ROPHECY is a mug's game in an era of upheaval, transformation and volatility. But, precisely for this reason, we can be certain that 2024 will be [...]

'THE police are the public and the public are the police,' remarked Robert Peel, who in addition to serving as Prime Minister founded the Metropolitan Police Service. Yet, that maxim [...]

IT MUST be a relief for Theresa May to be on the other side of the world, far from the scheming within her party and gloomy briefing papers being leaked [...]

SO Britain has blinked. As this paper has predicted for four months, gone is the pretence that in our negotiations with the EU 'no deal is better than a bad [...]

IN HER interview today, Theresa May says 'it's great that the Evening Standard has shone a light' on the scandal of modern slavery. Let us repay the compliment. Mrs May [...]

TONIGHT Philip Hammond delivers his first Mansion House speech as Chancellor. It was not a speech he ever expected to give. The Prime Minister and her close advisers had made [...]

Byline: Joe Murphy Political Editor THERESA MAY today hit back at claims by senior Conservatives that she runs the Government by a 'committee of three' at No 10. In an [...]

Byline: Jim Armitage City EditorCOMMENT EVERY government seems to have its moment of business sleaze. From Tony Blair's love-in with Formula 1 and tobacco to cash-for-questions under John Major, they [...]

Byline: Matthew d'Ancona A S he prepares for what may be his last party conference as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is working on a truly unpleasant gift for Manchester, host [...]

IT IS a tantalising prospect. Rupert Murdoch and his son James have bowed to pressure and are set to be grilled by MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Select [...]

IT is hard to imagine that the News of the World phone hacking scandal could get more shocking, but it may yet do so. Already we have learned that the [...]

ONE of David Cameron's last acts as Prime Minister was to host a corruption summit in London, in the wake of the revelations in the so-called Panama Papers, which sought [...]

Byline: Justin Davenport Crime Editor SCOTLAND YARD is examining new claims that the Prime Minister's chief media adviser was aware of illegal phone tapping while he was editor of the [...]

Byline: Roy Greenslade THE BBC's director-general, Mark Thompson, was quick to nail his colours to the mast. Even in advance of the Prime Minister's visit to Buckingham Palace, he affirmed [...]

Byline: Joe Murphy Political Editor BORIS JOHNSON faced growing calls to get on the Tube and show the world that London's transport network is Covid-safe. Frustrated business leaders demanded to [...]

NIGEL GRIFFITHS, a former Evening Standard assistant editor, has died from cancer, aged 68. Griffiths, who held the post for 20 years, relished the fast-pace multi-editions of the Evening Standard [...]

Byline: Peter Westmacott WHEN David Cameron arrived at the White House in March 2012, President Obama joshed that he was 'chuffed to bits' to welcome the prime minister to Washington. [...]

Byline: Chris Blackhurst R ISHI SUNAK did not mince his words. China, said the Prime Minister, was the 'biggest challenge of our age'. The giant power was increasingly 'authoritarian' at [...]

? South Korea's capital Seoul today shut down more than 400 hostess bars and nightclubs amid concerns over coronavirus transmissions. Two female bar employees were found to have contracted Covid-19 [...]

Byline: Jim Armitage City Editor COMMENT ATTACKING Thomas Cook directors' pay was an easy path for a Prime Minister looking to deflect potential anger at the Government's handling of the [...]

Byline: Daniel O'Mahony REACTION in the European press to Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue Parliament was predictably strong. The Irish Times lambasted the Prime Minister's 'reckless act', saying a nodeal [...]

Byline: Rohan Silva WE all know that Boris Johnson is a bit of a Winston Churchill buff so here's a question: if our new Prime Minister magically got the chance [...]

IT'S devastating to see our country's older people, and their increasingly urgent needs, being neglected in the wake of political turbulence. As Prime Minister, Boris Johnson must announce plans to [...]

IT'S devastating to see our country's older people, and their increasingly urgent needs, being neglected in the wake of political turbulence. Our next Prime Minister must announce plans to address [...]

WHEN John Major was prime minister he was assailed by young Right-wing newspaper columnists who thought they could do the job better than him. We're about to see whether one [...]

BORIS JOHNSON had a brush with the law today as he took part in a restraint technique demonstration. His visit to Thames Valley Police Training Centre was made as a [...]

Byline: Tristan Kirk Courts Correspondent COMMONS leader Penny Mordaunt is the latest senior Tory to fall foul of the law after she was convicted of speeding in south-west London. The [...]

Byline: Ayesha Hazarika OUT of the horror of the Christchurch massacre have emerged true heroes. The brave Muslim worshipper who took on the gunman, and the many members of the [...]

Byline: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Russell Lynch TALK about bad timing. At the very moment Chancellor Philip Hammond was confidently proclaiming that support for the Prime Minister's Brexit deal would 'unleash' a [...]

Byline: Ayesha HazarikaYESTERDAY morning I found myself on Woman's Hour discussing a political heroine, Barbara Castle one of Labour's most successful ministers. She is famed for standing up for the [...]

THAILAND POLLUTION CRISIS FORCES CLOSURE OF BANGKOK SCHOOLS MORE than 400 schools were closed today amid a worsening pollution crisis in the capital Bangkok.Prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha directed the city's [...]

MINISTERS and ambitious MPs are already manoeuvring for a leadership contest if the Prime Minister is fatally wounded in tonight's confidence vote. Here are some of the leading runners and [...]