Not buy the book:Morrison’s new memoir a local ratings flop

Not buy the book:Morrison’s new memoir a local ratings flop

Publishing industry data reveals the former PM’s religious memoir has failed to strike a chord with Australian book buyers.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell

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Sunak v Starmer:The difference between the men who want to run Britain

Sunak v Starmer:The difference between the men who want to run Britain

The contenders in the much anticipated July election will be doing their best to argue the other guy can’t be trusted.

  • byWilliam Booth
Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas

Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas

A boring prime minister in Keir Starmer may be the best Britain can hope for if it’s to end the omnishambles era.

  • byNick Bryant
Besides rain and bad polls,Sunak also must contend with ghosts
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UK election

Besides rain and bad polls,Sunak also must contend with ghosts

Two key figures,adored and detested by their respective tribes in equal measure,will make life harder for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

  • byRob Harris
Sunak calls snap UK election as Conservatives face thrashing at poll

Sunak calls snap UK election as Conservatives face thrashing at poll

In power since 2010,the Tories have tanked in opinion polls on the back of a post-COVID cost-of-living crisis and successive political scandals.

  • byRob Harris
Sunak closer to the scrapheap after Tories smashed at local elections
Analysis
UK politics

Sunak closer to the scrapheap after Tories smashed at local elections

After weeks of speculation of a move against him,it appears even Sunak’s colleagues have lost hope that changing the leader could do anything ahead of the general election in the UK.

  • byRob Harris
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It’s a strange day in politics when a PM does the opposition’s hard work

It’s a strange day in politics when a PM does the opposition’s hard work

In defining the next UK general election as an opportunity for change,Rishi Sunak handed Labour the best soundbite of its campaign.

  • byGeorge Brandis
Protester showers Keir Starmer in glitter as he sets out prime ministerial vision

Protester showers Keir Starmer in glitter as he sets out prime ministerial vision

Keir Starmer is on track to be the next British prime minister – and an encounter with a protester appears to have done him a favour,according to supporters.

  • byLatika Bourke
Climate wars have not been a feature of British politics. That’s about to change

Climate wars have not been a feature of British politics. That’s about to change

Labour is widely expected to win next year’s election. But Rishi Sunak is not going to die wondering and is playing the carbon card.

  • byGeorge Brandis
Britain isn’t stuck in the past,it’s stuck in the present
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Brexit

Britain isn’t stuck in the past,it’s stuck in the present

Britain has become Limboland,a nation in which one of its most famous tea-towel epigrams is in danger of becoming a looping incantation:Keep calm and carry on.

  • byNick Bryant
Jeremy Corbyn blocked from running as a UK Labour candidate ahead of next election

Jeremy Corbyn blocked from running as a UK Labour candidate ahead of next election

The move,put forward by Labour leader Keir Starmer,now risks plunging the opposition back into a round of vicious factional disputes.

  • byRob Harris