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So febrile have been the scenes in Parliament in recent weeks that the economic statement by Chancellor Sajid Javid on September 4 has gone almost unnoticed, yet it was scarcely what we have come to expect from Tory governments. Declaring ‘the end of austerity’, Javid unveiled the biggest spending spree …

By now, we all know the Harry and Meghan drill. Their royal mission in life is to ‘shine a light’ on hardship, to raise awareness and funds for good causes, while still being ‘authentic’ in themselves. And truly, they are to be commended for this. If they so wished, the …

Not long ago, Boris Johnson compared Brexit to the eternal torment of Greek god Prometheus having his liver pecked out by an eagle. Today, that torment could be over. Regardless whether Johnson prevails in the Commons this afternoon, there is no doubt about the magnitude of his achievement.  Almost all …

Cheers resounded not just in the public gallery at Teesside Crown Court but around the nation as former England football hero Paul Gascoigne was cleared by a jury of sexually assaulting a woman on a train after ‘innocently’ kissing her to make her feel better. In a world of #MeToo …

HARRY COLE: A taste of Royal displeasure for Jeremy Hunt when Prince Philip was introduced to his Chinese-born wife By Harry Cole For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:26, 6 October 2019 | Updated: 01:26, 6 October 2019 Contrary to reports suggesting Boris Johnson had grovelled to the Queen following …

My mother didn’t much like me reading Enid Blyton when I was a child. I suspect it was for the same sort of reason she wouldn’t let me have a Barbie doll: aspects of it made her uncomfortable. I had no such qualms. The Famous Five were too jolly hockey …

Royal author Anegla Levin claims the Duke of York’s statement was staggeringly arrogant The statement released yesterday by Prince Andrew was staggeringly arrogant, disingenuous and dishonest. I had hoped when I wrote in The Mail on Sunday last week asking him to come clean about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein …

I have always liked Prince Andrew. I interviewed him and Sarah Ferguson for BBC TV News shortly before their wedding in 1986 and it was one of the most spontaneous, happy and candid royal interviews ever given up to that date. The marriage was a true love match and the whole …

The last time we saw Prince Andrew, he was stepping off a flight to Malaga in the company of his former wife Sarah Ferguson before taking a limousine to the luxury resort of Sotogrande.  Business as usual, in other words. Andrew will be glad of the chance to get away …

Many scorn teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, but she has won me over completely. This week, the 16-year-old set off from the UK on a 3,000-mile voyage to New York, where she will address the United Nations at a Climate Action Summit. In some respects, it is gesture activism of …