Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories....
Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories.
Londoners and under-40s hardest hit by Britain’s mortgage rate mayhem
Inflation refuses to budge as under-40s, renters and London homeowners feel the pain
UK debt hits £2.6 trillion - or more than we all produce in a year
As inflation stays at 8.7 per cent in May unleashing more economic difficulties for millions of households
Activists to flood by-election battles this weekend
All three constituencies are ‘in play’ for the political parties, says leading pollster and Tory peer Lord Hayward
Tory candidate for Uxbridge by-election attacks Sadiq Khan’s Ulez
The Tories are seeking to turn the vote on July 20 to choose a new MP, after Boris Johnson quit, as a ‘referendum on Sadiq Khan’s Ulez’
Sunak warned not to ‘run away’ from defending Parliament in Boris vote
But the ex-PM’s allies vow to oppose the Privileges Committee report in the Commons
Mortgage mayhem: London homeowners feel pain as repayments soar
Analysis for the Standard shows London homeowners face annual mortgage payments sky-rocketing by as much as £8,000
Tory civil war spirals as MPs given vote on Boris Partygate report
Party divisions on whether to approve damning report which found former PM committed ‘repeated contempts’ of Parliament
Ukraine ‘seizes back 38 square miles of land’ in counter-offensive
It comes as US, UK, the Netherlands and Denmark announce plan to send hundreds of missiles to Ukraine
Covid Inquiry opens at last to hear harrowing video from relatives
Inquiry officials warn that the film of ‘some of those who suffered most during the pandemic’ may be ‘difficult to watch’
Boris and Rishi at war ahead of Privileges Committee verdict on ex-PM
Johnson clashes with Sunak over his resignation honours list, as much-anticipated report into whether former PM misled MPs over Partygate is set to be published
Rishi Sunak sends out Michael Gove to repel Boris Johnson blast
The Levelling-up Secretary took to the airwaves to defend the Government after Mr Johnson’s bombshell resignation as an MP on Friday