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The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 2 July, as a particularly serious sex scandal rocked Boris Johnson’s Government. SIR - Surely...

On 24 June, Oliver Dowden resigned as Chairman of the Conservative Party in the aftermath of two disastrous by-election losses. In his letter of resignation he...

In an address to the Friends of the National Archives at Kew on 14 June, Alistair Lexden returned to one of his abiding convictions: that Neville Chamberlain is...

In a letter to The Times on 7 June ( see below), Alistair Lexden called for reform of the existing rules. In a further letter, published in The Daily Telegraph...

On 6 June Boris Johnson won a vote confidence in his leadership by 211 to 148. Four in ten of his MPs opposed him. He may, or may not, be able to shore up his...

On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson MP was gunned down outside his home in London. A new book describes the circumstances in detail. Alistair Lexden’s review of...

Provosts of Eton, very grand chairmen of the school’s governing body, are appointed on the recommendation of the prime minister. Writing in The Spectator on 14...

Those calling for an elected second chamber may be surprised to learn that a century has passed since the first government proposals were mooted. Alistair...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 10 May. SIR - The last peer to be prime minister was the great Lord Salisbury, the fourth longest...