The Tories disgraced themselves in the recent local election campaign, with at least eighteen councillors or candidates suspended because of vile racist, misogynist or homophobic comments – and then the party’s […]
The SKWAWKBOX’s 2017 round-up listed some of the significant impacts this blog had on the political narrative and landscape last year. The blog has made a strong start to 2018, […]
The Tories’ struggles with social media are well known, from the crash-and-burn of the ill-starred ‘Tory Momentum’ Activate account, to their congratulations to the wrong minister during last week’s excuse […]
Yesterday, the SKWAWKBOX was the only media outlet to flag that a Labour reshuffle was imminent. Today, Labour has announced the following appointments by Jeremy Corbyn to his front bench: […]
Following – and possibly accelerated by – the resignation of Chris Williamson from the Labour front bench today, a senior Labour source has told the SKWAWKBOX that opposition leader Jeremy […]
You’d think Theresa May would learn. Well, maybe you wouldn’t. But after the embarrassment of appointing Toby ‘toadmeister’ Young to the board of the new universities regulator, only to see […]
Monday’s ‘reshuffle’ of Theresa May’s cabinet was largely a non-event, with none of the ‘big beasts’ moved and Jeremy Hunt keeping his job by – allegedly – crying about it. […]
Theresa May’s reshuffle today was largely a coin-toss between non-event and comedy – or perhaps tragic-comedy, given Jeremy Hunt’s alleged tears and May’s capitulation to him and other ministers who […]
Comment Jeremy Hunt spent some 115 minutes closeted with Theresa May today. According to media sources such as Laura Kuenssberg, May intended to sack him and he ‘argued passionately’ for […]
Comment section Ever since the General Election, the Tories have been obsessed with Jeremy Corbyn, sometimes quite openly. A right-wing think-tank even published an article titled “All that matters now […]