The Latest Breaking News from John Major

It doesn't seem fair. When the economy is tanking, the government gets the blame. When it recovers, voters tend to give short shrift. Just ask John Major, who couldn't even convince one in three Britons to support the Conservatives in 1997 despite overseeing 22 consecutive quarters of GDP growth and…

The member for Dagenham and Rainham says he can’t wait to leave parliament. So why did he spend the past 23 years there? And what does he think he achieved?

Exclusive Ipsos survey for The Standard also dashes hopes among some Tories that replacing Mr Sunak would boost their party’s fortunes

Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administration

In London, rates for Battersea power station’s £8m flats are still set with reference to its low-value past, and their rich owners pay less than householders in Hartlepool

In the history of fag-end governments, Sunak’s must be the worst

Gordon Brown also attacks Labour successor Sir Keir Starmer over ‘gang of four’ Cabinet reports

Worse than John Major amid sleaze, Boris Johnson following partygate and Liz Truss in the immediate aftermath of the calamitous “mini-Budget”. The Conservatives under Rishi Sunak have fallen to a record low of 20 per cent, according to an exclusive Ipsos poll. This is their weakest result since 1978, when…

Refusal by Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders to approve candidates means whole recruitment process may have to be rerun