Tom Peck, The Independent There is always a moment when an opposition party starts to look like a government in waiting. At the end of the 2009 Conservative Party conference,...
Boris Johnson’s legacy. Boris Johnson’s legacy. I have to confess that more than 20 minutes of thinking time have now passed between the typing of those two sentence fragments, and...
Tom Peck, The Independent It is still only a few days since Emily Maitlis delivered that lecture on politics and the media, and while it is still impossible to settle...
In two and a half weeks’ time, this country is going to go through a ritual that has become far too familiar. A new prime minister is going to take...
Ninety-six hours have now passed since one of Westminster’s most well-known wronguns did, yet again, the very wrong thing for which they are very well known, and had to resign...
The clock strikes eight and Boris Johnson dials in for his interview on LBC from somewhere below the waterline of a toilet bowl in Cornwall. To what was almost...
This was, by common consensus, the seventh “reset” of Boris Johnson’s three-year-and-just-about-still-counting premiership, and within seconds of taking to the stage in Blackpool, it was clear that the problem had...
They growled and they grunted, and they banged on their desks, but they couldn’t quite hold back the inevitable. When Sir Graham Brady read out the numbers — 211...
They’ve tied red, white and blue bunting between the beech trees all the way up the street. Half the windows have got Union Jacks in and giant posters of the...
The last time the police and the government joined forces and contrived to blame Liverpool FC for their own malfeasance, it took fully 33 years of near-constant toil for the...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
