All articles by: John Street
John Street’s Diary
Published: November 25, 2016
Written by John Street
Lady Midnight Prime Minister Theresa May has been given an object lesson on her personal standing with the US president-elect. May, who weighed in with criticism of Trump after his …
The Diary
Published: November 3, 2016
Written by John Street
Masters of war The Labour MPs who abstained on their own Shadow Defence Secretary Emily Thornberry’s rather mild motion to distance the UK from Saudi atrocities in Yemen, revealed a …
John Street’s Diary
Published: October 25, 2016
Written by John Street
School’s out There are more signs that Mrs May’s honeymoon period amongst her conference-weary rank and file is waning. Paul Goodman of the conservativehome website blogged: “Not everything is changed, …
The Diary
Published: October 11, 2016
Written by John Street
Monster’s ball Theresa May appears to have recognised that the Black and White Ball, the ultra-lavish annual Tory fund-raiser where table places go for up to £1,500 a head, may …
The Diary: John Street
Published: September 24, 2016
Written by John Street
Love for sale Fancy a lunch with Theresa May at the upcoming Conservative Party in Birmingham? it will set you back £3,000 – the price per head under the shindig’s …
The Diary: John Street
Published: September 20, 2016
Written by John Street
Venal Vennells The Post Office’s annual report revealed a surge in the earnings of chief executive Paula Vennells, who is currently presiding over a programme of office closures and mass …
The Diary – John Street
Published: August 10, 2016
Written by John Street
Dystopian Thatcherism The transcript of the ‘mini-saga’ item broadcast on the Today programme on 14 January 1988 which so offended Mrs Thatcher reads: “Thatcherism: The Final Solution, by Vincent Hill …
John Street’s Diary
Published: July 22, 2016
Written by John Street
Laugh a minute Unfortunately, the Tories seem to have the best jokes at the moment. Forget David Cameron’s misquoting of Monty Python in his last PMQs, and instead focus on …
John Street’s Diary
Published: July 16, 2016
Written by John Street
Tired and emotional Referendum fatigue clearly infected the Labour Research Department. They reported: “There has just been a period of little or no useful debate, of little or no relevant …
John Street’s Diary June 24
Published: June 27, 2016
Written by John Street
Untouchable Freud The allegations that the late Liberal MP Clement Freud had a history of child molestation came as no surprise to those who covered his 1980s career in Westminster. …
John Street’s Diary June 10
Published: June 10, 2016
Written by John Street
Tom Bower conceded at the Hay literary festival that his hatchet job on Tony Blair’s premiership plundered the published diaries of Number 10 media supremo Alastair Campbell.
John Street’s Diary May 27
Published: May 27, 2016
Written by John Street
The date on which the long-delayed Chilcot report on the Iraq War is published – July 6 – is both historically resonant and, perhaps, prophetic.
John Street’s Diary May 13
Published: May 13, 2016
Written by John Street
Channel 4 News has obtained further evidence that shows the Conservative Party bankrolled a possibly illegal operation to bus activists to key marginal seats to campaign for local candidates at …
John Street’s Diary April 29
Published: April 29, 2016
Written by John Street
David Cameron’s attempt to join the increasingly desperate Tory campaign of smears against Labour’s London mayoral hopeful have spectacularly backfired.
John Street’s Diary April 15
Published: April 15, 2016
Written by John Street
Zac Goldsmith, the Tories’ wunderkind and super-rich candidate for Mayor of London is looking more hopeless than hopeful as election day approaches.
John Street’s Diary April 1
Published: April 1, 2016
Written by John Street
The stramash over Iain Duncan Smith’s post-Budget resignation has, albeit for good reasons, over-shadowed the sheer economic incompetence of George Osborne’s package.
John Street’s Diary March 18
Published: March 18, 2016
Written by John Street
One year after the Prime Minister hosted a summit at Downing Street outlining a new strategy on tackling child sexual exploitation, there has been little or no progress.
John Street’s Diary March 4
Published: March 4, 2016
Written by John Street
The Trade Union Bill, currently in its Lords committee stage, has seen Tory peers freely exposing their sometime laughable ignorance.
John Street’s Diary February 19
Published: February 19, 2016
Written by John Street
Champagne was off the menu at the Tories’ annual fund-raising Black and White Ball in the City of London.
John Street’s Diary February 5
Published: February 6, 2016
Written by John Street
In an interview with the House Magazine, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady took a thinly-veiled swipe at Jeremy Corbyn,
John Street’s Diary January 22
Published: January 22, 2016
Written by John Street
More travails at the poor old Co-op
John Street’s Diary January 8
Published: January 8, 2016
Written by John Street
The 30-year-old racism revealed in a memo from the Prime Minister’s policy chief, Oliver Letwin, shone a torchlight on attitudes currently kept under wraps largely due to the efforts of …