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60 days ago

Minutes of travel expenses of former Duke of York as UK trade envoy withheld from National Archives

The Cabinet Office has been accused of covering up for the royal family after the release of documen…

81 days ago

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee

Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned

All the old gang were there: a reunion of the Br…

The former British prime minister was also a 'sympathetic listener to Diana at a time when she felt her most alone', royal expert Valentine Low noted in his book Power and the Palace.

3 months ago

You might remember that John Major once defined Britishness as warm beer, long shadows on cricket grounds, and old ladies cycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.
Should Wes Streeting become Prime Minister he will have the most compelling back story since it was revealed that John Major was the son of a circus performer and music hall artiste.

4 months ago

On December 9, 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced to the public that Prince Charles and Princess Diana would be separating.

The Tory leader’s shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a future

In one popular reading of the history of Tory successes, the party’s last three election-w…

6 months ago

DHSC rejected as ‘unusable’ PPE supplied by company linked to Lord Chadlington, which later went bust

They were the lucrative deals that epitomised the “VIP lane” set up by Boris Johnson’s government …

9 months ago

They were the words that destroyed John Major's premiership and government, consigned the Tory Party to decades in the political wilderness and changed the course of British history.

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