‘More time to learn’:Ashes hero drops out of race for UK parliament

‘More time to learn’:Ashes hero drops out of race for UK parliament

After a series of gaffes,former England cricketer Monty Panesar has now said he will no longer contest the seat for parliament one week after announcing his run.

  • byRob Harris

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Sunak closer to the scrapheap after Tories smashed at local elections
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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
Ashes hero Monty Panesar wants to be an MP,but he’s already got himself in a spin

Ashes hero Monty Panesar wants to be an MP,but he’s already got himself in a spin

The former England left-arm spinner conducted a series of awkward interviews after declaring he would stand as a candidate at the next general election.

  • byRob Harris
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

Johnson introduced the contentious new laws that mandate photo ID when voting while he was PM despite railing against the idea when he was a newspaper columnist in 2004.

  • byRob Harris
UK politics so much funnier than fiction,comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
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UK politics so much funnier than fiction,comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’

The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.

  • byRob Harris
Arrest marks latest fall for Scotland’s once high-flying power couple

Arrest marks latest fall for Scotland’s once high-flying power couple

Nicola Sturgeon,who dramatically quit public life in March last year after eight years as first minister of Scotland,was detained in June. Now her husband has been arrested.

  • byRob Harris
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Number 10 was a ‘prison infested with fleas’,says former British PM

Number 10 was a ‘prison infested with fleas’,says former British PM

She felt “itchy”,like a prisoner,and unsuited to making the speech on the Queen’s death,Liz Truss writes in her memoir.

  • byGenevieve Holl-Allen
Sneakergate:Is it bad for brands if politicians like their clothes?

Sneakergate:Is it bad for brands if politicians like their clothes?

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is the latest politician making an unexpected impact on style after he wore a popular style of sneakers to an interview.

  • byDamien Woolnough
British MP caught in honeytrap sexting scandal

British MP caught in honeytrap sexting scandal

Tory MP William Wragg has admitted to sharing colleagues’ phone numbers with a man he met via a dating app.

  • byGenevieve Holl-Allen
Supermac’s self-sabotage
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Supermac’s self-sabotage

The Night of the Long Knives has nothing on this.

‘A history we write together’:Wales to get its first black leader

‘A history we write together’:Wales to get its first black leader

Vaughan Gething’s election as the first black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government means three of the UK’s four governments will have non-white leaders.

  • byJill Lawless