Ed Miliband is to accuse David Cameron of putting efforts to hold the Tory party together ahead of the national interest, pointing to the referendum o...

Now the 'send in the clowns' shtick has gone stale, it's now time to send in the 'political has-beens'. If either Michael Portillo or Alan Johnson remained on the front-line of British politics, their respective parties would be far more likely to win the next general election.

David Cameron could take the extraordinary step of voting against his own Queen's Speech next week, as he attempts to placate Tory eurosceptics who wa...

The United Kingdom "should be prepared" to leave the European Union Boris Johnson has said, as David Cameron condemned Tories "pessimists" who doubted...

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo has become the latest Tory heavyweight to argue that Britain should leave the European Union - a...

Michael Portillo has slammed "stupid" Tory MPs who think the Conservatives would have been able to push through a more radical programme of reforms ha...

David Cameron's claim that the UK needs nuclear weapons to defend itself from North Korea has been dismissed as "absurd" by a former Conservative defe...

Empathy is an absolutely crucial part of the political picture. Take the Coalition's spending cuts. It's easy to see a policy in terms of numbers and strategies. It isn't until you seem the damage they have wrought up close that the human element begins to loom into focus.

Dimbleby, Paxman, Marr, Snow, you're all total players but nobody else can hold a candle to Andrew Neil when it comes to force-feeding the establishment the medicine it most detests: ridicule. And what majestic jowls.

Michael Portillo has said he won't be voting for Boris Johnson in the London mayoral elections. Speaking on BBC's This Week on Thursday evening, th...

Former cabinet minister Michael Portillo will chair a £55 million scheme to help arts organisations develop a long-term approach to funding, providin...