Get ready for backbench Boris. After more than three years as prime minister, Mr Johnson heads for the backbenches, where he is expected to be defiant, stir up trouble and plot a Trump-style comeback.

In British-style parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament who doesn’t hold government office and isn’t a spokesperson of the opposition. They’re essentially a rank and file ...

The government’s reforms were too fierce. The scale of the backbench rebellion was unusually large. Starmer’s team should have seen what was coming MPs and the parliamentary process rarely get a good ...

PM TWO CENTS ON UNVAXXED TAX — Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU is expected to comment this morning on Quebec Premier FRANÇOIS LEGAULT’s latest crackdown on unvaccinated Quebecers. Legault, who seems to ...

The chairman of the powerful parliamentary committee on intelligence and security, Andrew Hastie, issued a warning about China’s rise last week. Lukas Coch/AAP Trade minister Simon Birmingham on ...

It used to be a common complaint that Britain’s political class consisted of bland, identikit PR creations who were all spin and no substance. Recently, there has been something of a backlash. A ...