The Latest Breaking News from David Cameron

“The problem with my dear fellow Tory MPs is they all think they’re Winston Churchill,” a weary Cabinet minister told me this week. “Every single one of them.” Like many in the Conservative Party now, the minister has given up hope over the general election result.

Politicians are dropping in pop culture references and even rewriting song lyrics to win votes... to varying levels of success

In today’s newsletter: Why Labour is making a virtue of a policy programme bereft of new ideas

Craig Williams, who placed bet three days before PM made election announcement, says ‘I made huge error of judgment’

Lord David Cameron said Rishi Sunak is a ‘very effective prime minister’ who wants to ‘go on doing his job’

PM says it ‘would not be appropriate’ to say whether Craig Williams knew that he was going to call a July election

The Reform leader, who is standing against Mr Sunak’s party in the general election, is plastered across the leaflets of right-wing Conservative Dame Andrea Jenkyns

Minister condemns decision by election candidate Craig Williams to place bet days before snap poll announced

We’re at around the midway point of the 2024 election campaign and the two main party leaders have undergone a grilling by Sky News. This was not a head-to-head debate but two separate interviews with Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby, followed by questions from the public.

The long read: Having created a watchdog for the environment, the government took its teeth out and muzzled it. Can public outrage rouse the Environment Agency to action?

The prime minister was condemned for skipping events to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings to return home for a sit down with ITV