The Latest Breaking News from Boris Johnson

The cavalier way in which the latest U-turn has been presented reveals a government and a PM scrabbling for survival, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

He built a global conservative media empire, but the phone-hacking scandal and Dominion libel action almost undid the divisive mogul

Band of advisers includes loyalists who have been with PM since days as chancellor, alongside some new faces

Josie Stewart, a former senior official at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, lost her job after an interview with the BBC.

He claimed to represent change, but his net zero speech shows the PM is as disreputable as his predecessors, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Opposition leader gives rare window into thinking on Europe

There’s a new parlour game being played in all the pinko-liberal-remainiac north London dinner parties I knock about at. It’s called “But What The F*** Did Sir Keir Starmer REALLY Mean When He Said He’d Make Brexit Work?”

Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden says it would ‘disproportionate to undertake further action’ against former PM

Not many politicians got the better of Sir Tony Blair but Ken Livingstone has a claim. I remember one late summer’s day in 2005, travelling around Trafalgar Square in a car with Sir Tony, my then-boss and also the prime minister. Around us, people were clearing up after a festival…

The Deputy Prime Minister said it would be ‘disproportionate’ to take any further action towards the former prime minister.

The government’s appointments watchdog found that Mr Johnson had committed a ‘clear and unambiguous breach’ of the rules over his Daily Mail column