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In a letter to The Times on 7 June ( see below), Alistair Lexden called for reform of the existing rules. In a further letter, published in The Daily Telegraph...

On 6 June Boris Johnson won a vote confidence in his leadership by 211 to 148. Four in ten of his MPs opposed him. He may, or may not, be able to shore up his...

On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson MP was gunned down outside his home in London. A new book describes the circumstances in detail. Alistair Lexden’s review of...

Provosts of Eton, very grand chairmen of the school’s governing body, are appointed on the recommendation of the prime minister. Writing in The Spectator on 14...

Those calling for an elected second chamber may be surprised to learn that a century has passed since the first government proposals were mooted. Alistair...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 10 May. SIR - The last peer to be prime minister was the great Lord Salisbury, the fourth longest...

Alistair Lexden looks back on the career of an outstanding scholar. His tribute was drawn on by The Times, which published a long and full obituary on May 4...

The man in querstion was the fourth Duke of Newcastle. He poured his venom into his diary, which has just been published. Alistair Lexden’s review is attached...

On 13 April, Lord (David) Wolfson of Tredegar QC, a highly regarded barrister, resigned as Justice Minister in Lords. In a letter to Boris Johnson, he said that...