Politics

The Conservatives face the threat of a new police probe as an exclusive video shows officials joking about their rule-bending Christmas bash at the party's headquarters in London during lockdown

Anger at Ms Dorries among her constituents had been bubbling long before her rage-quit over Mr Johnson’s honours list

Keir Mudie says Parliament and the Tory Party were always just vehicles for Boris Johnson as he has 'never been serious' - and even Tories who were once loyal to him now no longer support him

The Tamworth Tory MP quit his role in the whips’ office last June after he was accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members’ club

Just months after he and Liz Truss tanked the UK economy with their kamikaze mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng has started raking in cash from public speaking

National Education Union members in England will walk out on July 5 and 7 with mass disruption expected in schools, after NEU re-balloted plans for action for the rest of the year

Rachael Bletchly says this week we got to see the dirty laundry the former Prime Minister has been so desperate to hide - but some of his allies believe he can still come back

The King awarded medals for charity workers, volunteers and community champions. This is what the honours system is for

For years, both men have twisted the rules, broken their word and trampled over decency. This week reality finally caught up with them, writes JASON BEATTIE

In his first newspaper column - which is said to be part of a £1million contract - the ex-PM told a long-winded story about a Cabinet member

The legislation, which is currently going through the House of Lords, would block hunting tourists importing animal skins, severed heads and carcasses after shoots abroad

The former PM has been forced into a humiliating retreat as he tells his cheerleaders not to vote against the damning findings of the Privileges Committee

The lockdown-busting former PM committed a 'clear breach' of the rules by failing to get permission from the appointments watchdog, Acoba, for his new job as a newspaper columnist

Labour’s Dr Rosena Allin-Khan warned hard-working staff including doctors and nurses are facing extra pressures as hospitals struggle with record waiting lists

The Daily Mail teased an 'erudite new columinist who'll be required reading in Westminster and across the world' on its front page on Friday alongside a silhouette figure of a man

During his campaign to become Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak said he loves having McDonald's breakfast wraps with his daughters - but the items were actually discontinued in March 2020

Rishi Sunak has been branded 'weak' after Downing Street suggested he could dodge a Commons vote on the Boris Johnson report, which found he misled Parliament on multiple occasions

Committee report exposes as hollow his claims that 'all ­guidance was followed in No10' during 2020’s illegal lockdown parties, first revealed by the Mirror in December 2021

The dispute that drags on is a stain on ministers who spend more time on Tory psychodramas than governance, says Paul Routledge

MPs on a Tory majority Privileges Committee, Westminster’s wider Conservative tribe and Rishi Sunak all know the truth about the disgraced former PM, writes Kevin Maguire

His feeble attempt to present himself as the victim of a miscarriage of justice and his Trump-style diatribe at the committee only compound the agony

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

After being a backbench MP, a Shadow Minister, a two-term London Mayor, Foreign Secretary, Tory leader and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's political career finally looks to be in tatters

Senior figures from Keir Starmer's party recalled their time working with the double Oscar-winning actress, who had a successful second career as a respected parliamentarian

'Boris Johnson has exploded with a vast stream of incoherent nonsense, like a volcano spewing out lava... More lies, more evasions, more refusal to accept responsibility," says Sir Chris Bryant