Jon Allsop

Marine Le Pen’s ‘Perfect Soldier’

To focus on her 2022 presidential campaign, the National Rally candidate is handing over party leadership to her youthful protégé. Is this the ticket that will bring the far right to power in France?

Cummings’s Last Stand

The political adviser who helped Boris Johnson ride the Brexit wave into power has turned on him over the government’s pandemic record. But whose nemesis will it prove?

Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness

Taking charge after the electoral debacle under Jeremy Corbyn was always going to be a challenge. But Keir Starmer is struggling to chart a new course for his party.