SIMON WALTERS: Boris Johnson’s personal finances? They’re as orderly as his hair

The decision by the Commons Committee on Standards is a relief for Boris Johnson – and a victory over Westminster’s ‘sleazebuster’ Kathryn Stone. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Miss Stone, who had investigated the Prime Minister’s 2019 holiday with then-fiancee Carrie Symonds to the Caribbean island, had ruled that Boris broke the rules that say MPs must … Read more

SIMON WALTERS on the row that’s really got Boris Johnson rattled

SIMON WALTERS on the row that’s really got Boris Johnson rattled: Who helped the PM pay to refurbish his Downing Street flat? By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 10:43 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 11:11 GMT, 13 March 2021 Questions over who helped Boris Johnson pay for the refurbishment of his Downing Street … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Proof that the poorest are bearing the brunt of this crisis

The devastating way that pupils’ attainment levels and ability to study have plummeted because of school closures is laid bare today. One in three parents say that their children’s sense of educational fulfilment has been damaged, with the poorest being worst affected. Approximately half say their ability to concentrate has suffered in lockdown while more … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Keir Starmer may be key to slaying the Spartans in the ERG

SIMON WALTERS: Keir Starmer may be key to slaying the Spartans in the ERG By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 00:09 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 24 December 2020 The UK has been negotiating for a Brexit deal for four-and-a half years. Boris Johnson would have just days to get … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Holy mackerel… is fishing a reason to scupper a Brexit trade deal? 

Sir Edward Heath is the Conservative Prime Minister who sold out Britain’s fishermen in 1973 to take us into what became the European Union. Boris Johnson does not want to be remembered as the one who sold them out to take us out. That is one of the main reasons for what appears to be … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: How Aussie rules come with a serious health warning for Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has a new ploy when asked about the prospect of a No Deal Brexit outcome: He talks about Australia instead. He did it again yesterday, comparing leaving the EU without a trade agreement as ‘the Australian-style option’. On Thursday, the Prime Minister said cutting ties with Brussels ‘on Australian terms’ would allow the … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: The huge Brexit gamble that Boris Johnson can’t afford to dodge 

Until last night, it was tempting to think that the acrimonious fallout from Boris Johnson’s dinner with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels was entirely stage-managed. That it is all part of a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance which allows each side to prove to their respective supporters that they have fought tooth … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: Only Macron stands in the way of PM’s triumph on Brexit deal and Covid vaccine

By Monday morning, Boris Johnson could have earned his place in history.  Securing a Brexit trade deal in the blink of an eye, just days after Britain became the first country in the world to approve a Covid vaccine, would be an achievement to rival Sir Robert Walpole’s record of 20 years, 315 days in … Read more

SIMON WALTERS: I’ve never seen No 10’s inner circle erupt into war so rapidly

The Oxford professor, physicist and philosopher Sir Roger Penrose was finally awarded a Nobel Prize last month 55 years after he proved there are black holes in space. It has taken less than 55 weeks since the last election for proof to emerge that there is a gaping black hole at the heart of Boris … Read more

SIMON WALTERS asks when WILL the BBC make a drama about a venal, lying Labour politician? 

The following Tory politician may well sound familiar. He is a shameless adulterer, has at least one illegitimate daughter, fell out with another, boasts he is a ‘character’, loves posing for ‘selfies’ with the public, says it is time to put Brexit ‘in the past’, and wants to depose a female Tory Prime Minister who … Read more