Fraser Nelson

In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neil invited me to his villa in the Côte d’Azur but didn’t say why. I was mystified. I was then political editor of The Spectator and in eight years of working closely with Andrew, the then chairman, he’d never hinted that he saw me as an editor. I

Morten Morland drew this illustration when The Spectator became the first weekly in history to publish its 10,000th issue on 25 April 2020.

At his book launch this week, Boris Johnson invited guests to imagine what life would have been like without the “tiny handful of random events” that led to his downfall.

November 2 may not mark the end of the Tories’ leadership traumas – an ex-PM still has ambitions

Only a handful of politicians can claim to have genuinely changed history: Alex Salmond is one of them . For years, he embodied the cause of Scottish

My proposal for tax reform is a new, empty box at the end of the self-assessment form. “Some believe the rate of tax is too low,” it would say. “If

If there is method to Donald Trump's madness, then John Kelly would be the man to explain it.

The US political system is facing challenges, but it is robust enough to overcome them – as it has often before power

Seldom has a budget come apart so quickly. It's not that Rachel Reeves will be forced to take farms out of her new inheritance tax scheme, although that may well come.

Labour pledged its devotion to the guardian of fiscal rectitude. It is about to face the consequences