All news by author: Keir Mudie

Olivia Colman has revealed she was so nervous the night she won an Oscar in 2019 for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite, she took a beta blocker to 'calm down'

While the Tories flounder at the bottom of the polls and with major pressure on Rishi Sunak, the best thing would be to call an early election in May to get the pain over and done with

In response to George Galloway's byelection victory in Rochdale, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered one of the most bewildering, rambling, pointless speeches Mirror columnist Keir Mudie has ever seen

At a time when it's vital for people to be paying attention to politics, carnivals of point-scoring like what happened over the Gaza ceasefire vote shows why there's a lack of faith in politicians

Labour secured a double by-election victory on Thursday after a 'catastrophic' handling of an anti-semitism row. Keir Mudie believes the party 'can hold things together and keep focus'

When you see Labour going down well with the City, austerity hero George Osborne praising them, it’s a slightly unsettling feeling. Turns out it’s not just me. It used to be you had to wait ages to see how policy was playing out. Now you can get reaction pretty quickly

This week Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would not be reversing the Conservative's scrapping of the banker bonus cap if they got back into power

With thousands predicting "utter electoral oblivion", Keir Mudie blasts the Conservative Party and the Tories' repeated plots, which he says "are not making temperance easy"

After threats of rebellion from right-wing Tories over the Rwanda deportation plan failed to materialise, the bill is now headed for the Lords where members are in a fighting mood, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie

There should really be more noble reasons for unleashing airstrikes on a country than oil, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie, but that's exactly what Rishi Sunak did at the end of the week

It’s great that Keir Starmer and Labour want the highest growth in the G7, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie, but what does that mean for food prices, for the NHS, for mortgages?

Judging by the frenzied activity from both Labour and the Tories in the remaining days of 2023, Mirror columnist Keir Mudie reckons an election could be coming in either spring or autumn

Keir Mudie says Rishi Sunak is a Scrooge who hasn’t learned any lessons, despite what the ghosts are telling him - and a horrible festive season is in store for him

Both a recession and an election is looming and Tory leader Rishi Sunak is failing to heal the rifts and factionalism in his own party caused by his disastrous Rwanda scheme, Keir Mudie writes

Keir Mudie says former Health Secretary Matt Hancock showed arrogance and ineptitude when confronted about his decisions during the coronavirus pandemic at the Covid inquiry

Keir Mudie had a pint with Nigel Farage a few years ago when he was on the campaign trial in Kent - and described him as 'very pleasant, good company, totally plausible'

Columnist Keir Mudie says we can’t continue with these lunatics from the Tory Government falling out with each other, jostling for position while the country burns

Between the horror of the Covid Inquiry hearings and Suella Braverman's abhorrent tactics against people protesting for a ceasefire in Gaza, it shows how the inner world of power is a sordid mess.

The whole motif of the last couple of years has been Labour is a reformed party, all the hatchets buried, ready to govern. Thing is, they just can’t keep a lid on things.

Surely the Prime Minister's time would be better spent domestically at the moment, instead of making a trip to world capitals for an exchange of platitudes

Keir Mudie says is he terrified by the Israeli president Isaac Herzog who is putting the blame for the ­inhumanity of Hamas on to all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Keir Mudie says we learnt nothing from Tory Conference apart from they are unravelling, out of ideas and some of them stand on dogs - and now it's time for Labour to act

Keir Mudie says Suella Braverman has been taking her act on the road this week to test it out before her big speech on Tuesday and becoming increasingly unhinged in the process

Keir Mudie says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week had the air of a man who knows the game is up - and the fact he's backing down on net-zero promises is 'quite something'

Since it was announced in 2009, HS2 has been rerouted many times and more than doubled in cost from the £33billion - a shambles and another slap in the face for the north.