SIMON WALTERS: Bad blood that led scorned ex-PM to wield the stiletto

Theresa May is not the first Conservative leader to feel keenly the pain of being ousted from power, an agony made all the more bitter when the ousting is done not by the voters but by fellow Tories. After he was ignominiously toppled by Margaret Thatcher in 1975, a truculent Sir Edward Heath was nicknamed … Read more

David Cameron becomes fifth ex-PM to criticise Brexit plans

David Cameron today became the fifth former prime minister to condemn Boris Johnson over his plans to tear up parts of the Brexit divorce deal. Mr Cameron said breaking an international treaty ‘is the very, very last thing you should contemplate’ and should only ever be an ‘absolute final resort’. The ex-PM, who quit Number … Read more

Coronavirus Australia: Ex-PM Tony Abbott slams lockdown rules

UK’s ‘new Brexit trade envoy’ ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott says more elderly Covid patients should be allowed to die by ‘letting nature take its course’ Tony Abbott today said ‘we let fear of falling sick stop us from being fully alive’ He called for lockdown rules to be eased so people make their own decisions … Read more