Tim Stanley

Camilla Tominey, Tim Stanley Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley battle the elements outside Parliament to bring you the latest developments from a tense day in Westminster.

On this right royal occasion, the King was eclipsed by a page boy. Little Wes Streeting's big day began with a visit to the headmaster that lasted

Wes Streeting has resigned from Sir Keir Starmer's Cabinet with a blistering attack on the PM, criticising his leadership and his lack of vision for the Labour Party.

They say the art of letter writing is dead. Labour MPs have been dashing off letters like the disgusted of Tunbridge Wells – a resignation

The sun is out and Makerfield is flooded with journalists. Someone is driving around shouting “Reform!” at passers-by.

The original plan with this column was to row back on some of the crueller comments I recently made about Wes Streeting. They were more about me than him.

And they're off! Andy Burnham began his campaign last week with the traditional politician's jog , and suspicions that he was doing it for the

I must confess that Keir Starmer is growing on me. Well, anyone the Labour Party hates can't be all bad.

Readers might recall that last month Labour promised a “ summer of sex ” with a new campaign for “lifelong sex education” (much needed: I've forgotten everything I knew).

If an alien visited the Makerfield by-election , he couldn't say who was Left or Right. Labour and Reform have the exact same pitch: “I'm local” and “ I'm working-class ”.