The Latest Breaking News from John Major

The former deputy prime minister was never short of a pithy comment.

The Queen was missing from the ceremony in Whitehall, London, through illness.

The Princess of Wales watched on from a balcony over Whitehall.

CONSIDER for a second if the Scottish Government introduced a replacement for council tax that was so unpopular it led to riots across the country…

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…

The Westminster townhouse used as a bolt-hole by Margaret Thatcher when she was ousted from power in 1990 has come on the market priced at £3.65 million.

Veteran Conservative politician who served as a Northern Ireland minister and chairman of the party

In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…

Not all prime ministerial partners have followed in Keir and Victoria Starmer’s footsteps

Tugendhat used to be a minister in the Home Office, and he is now shadow security minister

Former prime minister says previous Tory government’s immigration policy would not have acted as a deterrent