Alistair Lexden provided an introduction to his film about Bonar Law (Conservative Party leader, 1911-21 and 1922-23; Prime Minister, 1922-23) in an article...

In 2013, landmark legislation, the Defamation Act, struck a new and much fairer balance between the rights of claimants and defendants in libel cases. The Act...

8 January was the centenary of Chequers in Berkshire becoming the prime minister’s official country residence. Lloyd George moved in very happily in 1921. The...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 9 January, under the heading “How committed is the PM to saving the Union?” SIR - Nicola Sturgeon...

On Sunday, 3 January Boris Johnson said it was perfectly safe for children to return to school after the holidays; the following day, he said that schools must...

Boris Johnson’s second list of new peers this year was published on 23 December. His 52 additions to the Lords in 2020 take the total size of the House to 830...

We look back on the Second World War as a time when the country was united behind Churchill and his national government, a coalition of all parties, in the...

In all the discussion in Parliament and the media about an EU trade deal, one small but central point has been lost to sight. Boris Johnson has said over and...

Three were elected to the House of Commons, and another became a peer, between 1892 and 1929. Their lives have been told by Lord (Mahomed) Sheikh, a...