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Andrea Leadsom

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak walks up a dockyard ramp wearing a buoyancy aid.

    The Observer view on the Tories: A chance to pass judgment on 14 years of misrule

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Tories take refuge in fantasy as local election drubbing becomes clear

    John Crace

March 2024

  • UK Health Minister Andrea Leadsom Broadcast Round, London, England, United Kingdom - 21 Mar 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14396301j) Public Health Minister ANDREA LEADSOM is seen during the morning broadcast round in Westminster. UK Health Minister Andrea Leadsom Broadcast Round, London, England, United Kingdom - 21 Mar 2024

    Andrea Leadsom criticises civil service head’s Garrick Club involvement

    Former Tory leadership contender says she would not join men-only club even if it changed rules

February 2024

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a zombie's hand emerging from the rubbled holding a voting slip.

    Only votes from the dead can keep this zombie Tory government alive

    Stewart Lee
    Surveys show that the Conservatives appeal to older voters, and support from the deceased appears to their last hope of winning another term

January 2024

  • Shipping containers are unloaded from a cargo ship at the Port of Felixstowe

    Andrea Leadsom: Brexit checks are the price of ‘being a sovereign state again’

    Health minister and Brexiter says businesses experiencing ‘some friction’ should adapt to changes in trade rules

July 2023

  • Andrea Leadsom

    Westminster shareholdings
    Andrea Leadsom held shares in Barclays when questioning bank’s ex-boss

    Exclusive: Revelation about Tory former minister raises questions about adequacy of transparency rules

June 2023

  • Sue Gray in a parliamentary committee in 2022

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Watchdog rejects Johnson’s suggestion Sue Gray’s Labour job meant she was not impartial investigating Partygate – as it happened

    Advisory committee on business appointments says it has seen ‘no evidence’ that Gray’s decision-making was affected despite ex-PM’s claim

April 2023

  • Arthur Parkinson shot for the Observer magazine at Crackleberry Farm

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2023

March 2023

  • Andrea Leadsom accuses banking sector of ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ approach to bonuses – video

  • Andrea Leadsom photographed on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament.

    Andrea Leadsom: ‘I was determined to become prime minister and deliver Brexit myself’

August 2022

  • A BP oil platform in the North Sea.

    Oil giant’s lobbying firm provided ‘admin support’ to MPs investigating energy crisis

    Calls for greater oversight of parliamentary groups after concerns raised about Tory backbench committee

July 2022

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Fainting room only at Penny Mordaunt’s swelteringly dull leadership launch

    John Crace
  • Construction of the Palace of Westminster began in 1840 and took three decades to complete.

    Britain’s Notre Dame? Why MPs need to solve the Houses of Parliament problem

May 2022

  • Boris Johnson leaving No 10 Downing Street

    Boris Johnson faces growing Tory calls for confidence vote

    Andrea Leadsom criticises PM’s ‘failure of leadership’ as another MP submits letter to 1922 Committee

November 2021

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Paterson’s fair-weather friends keep well away from the standards debate

    John Crace
    Boris Johnson was among the Tory MPs who gave up defending the indefensible and absented themselves from the Commons
  • Martin Rowson cartoon 6 November 2021: Boris Johnson launches a firework into a pile of corruption-themed fireworks

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on a week of explosive Tory sleaze – cartoon

    Parliament’s ethics watchdog has been urged to investigate Boris Johnson’s Downing Street finances after this week’s sleaze scandal, which saw the resignation of Owen Paterson after an attempt to block his suspension
    • ‘Absolute madness’: circus around an MP that riled the Commons

    • Johnson accused of corruption as he tears up system to fight Westminster sleaze

    • The politics sketch
      Tories do their best to trash what remains of their reputation

      John Crace

June 2021

  • Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom

    Andrea Leadsom criticised after saying furlough has been ‘great’ for some

    Former business secretary claims UK’s economic recovery under threat with firms struggling to persuade staff back to the office
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