The Latest Breaking News from John Major

LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s recent run of success isn’t enough to turn around the electoral prospects of his ruling Conservative Party, his own aides fret.

In this compelling account, the author and documentary-maker describes how decades of covert communications between the British government and the IRA eased the path to the Good Friday agreement – helped by an unlikely hero

The blight on living standards makes the case for rejoining stronger every day – and this PM is nothing if not pragmatic

Centrist dads, assemble.

Hundreds of people lined the streets to remember the two boys who lost their lives in the Warrington bombing

King Charles III received a vast inheritance from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II

Labour is spooked by its defeat in 1992, while the Tories fear a repeat of what happened to them in 1997

The Conservatives have bounced back from 20-point poll deficits to win general elections before, but they didn’t have Liz Truss and Boris Johnson to reckon with

Current Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle described Lady Boothroyd as a ‘groundbreaking parliamentarian’ as MPs observed a minute’s silence in her memory.

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Former PM defends Sunak’s attempts to improve on ‘pretty poor’ protocol deal struck by Johnson