Boris Johnson

Former prime minister says he and his advisers felt bewildered and frazzled at outbreak of pandemic

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson faces first of two days of questioning over his handling of the Covid pandemic

Hancock says Britain should have locked down at the start of March 2020, three weeks earlier than it did, and that he now realises this would have saved 90% of lives lost in first wave

The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in Westminster

French politician says British ministers did not know the consequences of leaving the bloc

Party hopes to resurrect fortunes by bringing former PM David Cameron back but its policy positions are alienating younger voters

Braverman is the latest in a long line of mediocre-to-really-terrible women in the Tory Party

Former British PM wanted to demonstrate early in pandemic that Covid-19 did not pose threat to public, adviser says

Former Daily Telegraph editor had been in the running to bid for British broadsheet

Planet Business: Helen MacNamara’s Covid testimony, We Work’s imminent bankruptcy and invitees to Bletchley Park

LBC broadcaster on what ails his native country, his faith in youth and why he won’t be tracking down his Irish biological mother

The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer

The inquiry shines an unflattering light on the failure to move more swiftly and effectively in the early days of the pandemic

Former PM’s adviser Dominic Cumming says ‘dysfunctional system’ led vulnerable to be ‘appallingly neglected’ in 2020

Messages revealed at the UK’s Covid inquiry portray him as a weak and rudderless leader

The former Tory MP on the Brexit vote, serving as minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, and running against Johnson for the party leadership

Prof Philip Nolan: ‘I don’t see the value in an inquiry as a piece of political theatre. I do see value in a genuine lessons-learned review’

The Beaufort trench between Ireland and Scotland is one of the largest dumps worldwide for unexploded ordnance

Manchester Letter: Kemi Bandenoch has emerged as a front runner to replace Rishi Sunak should he step down if the party suffers defeat at the next election

Westminster ‘indecision’ during pandemic impacted Northern Ireland, barrister tells UK Covid-19 inquiry

British prime minister gives comedic address in Westminster but poll research suggest serious problems lie ahead for his government

‘Mr Brexit’ on Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Leo Varadkar, Mary Lou McDonald and Ireland’s future

British opposition leader says he would seek closer trading relationship with EU but rules out rejoining

Brexit has disrupted the careful equilibrium in Northern Ireland

Janan Ganesh: Britain has turned against radical politics faster than other rich nations because it has lost more from it

Brief reviews of The Lodgers by Eithne Shortall; The End of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce; and Trussed Up by Liz Gerard

Liberals fret too much about dictatorship and not enough about chaos

Supporters of Ulez say it will save lives but it was also blamed for a recent Labour byelection defeat

In a more productive country, citizens could enjoy longer retirements, more consumption and a better class of rollercoaster

Bobby McDonagh: NatWest and Coutts Bank were wrong to make judgments about Farage’s politics. But there was nothing wrong with the judgments they made

There’s a lot to be said for simplified names

Labour and the Liberal Democrats hope to overturn large Conservative majorities

Reversing decades of underinvestment in the west of Northern Ireland is a political imperative but there are smarter ways to do it than costly rail rebuilding projects

Labour leader’s Damascene conversion to the process he once fought tooth and nail against has him riding high in the polls

The poet’s latest collection features a sequence about his father’s death during Covid

Messages deemed irrelevant can be handed back without being disclosed to third parties, judges say

Cabinet office finds Labour’s recently appointed chief of staff should have declared her initial contact with the party

It is easy to assume the world is getting progressively worse. And then along comes a huge leap forward in science or medicine to challenge the misery

Just handful of Conservatives vote against the privileges committee’s findings

Two people appear to dance past sign saying ‘Please keep your distance’ during event at Tory HQ in 2020