PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours

Briefings aimed at seeing off leadership plots may have left the PM more vulnerable, some in Labour fear.

Keir Starmer appears to be in so much trouble holding on as Labour leader and PM that Downing Street had to warn his potential successors. Political editor David Maddox looks at…

PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours

Tony Blair’s former director of communications intervention comes as the PM comes under pressure to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

The prime minister says he has been ‘assured’ nobody in Downing Street briefed against his health secretary amid claims chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is ‘unsackable’

It was already make or break for both residents of Downing Street, but whoever briefed against Wes Streeting has just made the task even worse, as Sean O’Grady explains

A briefing by his allies to British news outlets about alleged leadership challenge triggered a communications crisis.

Botched briefing operation was proof to many that PM is leading an ineffectual No 10. How did it go so wrong?