Tim Shipman

I've lost track of the number of times I've heard two things in recent months. Serving and retired military commanders, ministers and former

This is not the end, but it’s well past the beginning of the end, or even the middle of the end. It feels, with six days until the Makerfield by-election is expected to return Andy Burnham to Parliament, that we are at the beginning of the end of the...

This is not the end, but it’s well past the beginning of the end, or even the middle of the end. It feels, with six days until the Makerfield by-election is expected to return Andy Burnham to Parliament, that we are at the beginning of the end of the...

There is no situation room, no wall of flatscreens or a hotline to the White House, just a few chairs patrolled by ‘quite a mad dog'.

There is no situation room, no wall of flatscreens or a hotline to the White House, just a few chairs patrolled by ‘quite a mad dog’. But a garden in Golborne, on the outskirts of Wigan, is now ground zero in three different operations which will...

Andy Burnham is the new MP for Makerfield and is well on the way to becoming the new prime minister. Much blood may need to flow under the bridge first, but few in Westminster doubt the inevitability of his ultimate elevation to No. 10. Labour’s...

A source who has had extensive interactions with members of Burnham’s inner circle says there are nine contenders to be his chancellor.

Starmer fairly boasted that he had changed his party, driven out the anti-Semites and won a landslide election victory.

Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening when the prime minister presumptive sent a letter to Antonia Romeo, the Cabinet Secretary, requesting...

Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional.