What a week in politics: more storms to come
andybodders There has perhaps never been a week like the last in British politics. Faced with the obstinacy of Boris Johnson refusing to resign as prime minister, senior ministers, junior ministers,…
Thursday was a good night for the Lib Dems in Shropshire and beyond
The political news of the week has been the by-election wins in Tiverton and Honiton, which fell to the Lib Dems, and Wakefield, which fell to Labour. This of course…
Food banks and posh nosh
On Monday, the Conservative Party held its summer party fundraiser. The top lot was dinner with Boris Johnson and his rivals Theresa May and David Cameron. The Dinner of the…
Philip Dunne has no confidence in Boris Johnson – he should call for his resignation
Partygate. We are all fed up with it. Yet the events and the aftermath shredded have any bit of credibility that Boris Johnson had left. Faced with continual calls for…
We have a new MP in Shropshire and she is not a Tory – it’s the stuff of dreams and nightmares
Whoever thought that Shropshire would dominate the news headlines from before most people had woken today and will still be headlining when they went to bed. Who’d have thought that…