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Boris Johnson You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. It was Wednesday, just after noon and, in an imposing building overlooking the Thames in Westminster, the questions on football and racism were coming thick and fast. But the venue was not the House of Commons and the speaker was not the prime minister. In the fortified bowels of MI5’s Thames House HQ, director general (aka the ‘DG’) Ken McCallum was answering queries from the media, including yours truly. Whereas PMQs thrives off the bearpit jeers and cheers, DGQ...

Updated 2 hours ago PM attempts the biggest privatisation so far: the privatisation of government responsibility Daniel Leal-OlivasPA You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. You know it’s time to get worried when Boris Johnson starts talking about honesty. Last year, when he was still refusing to trigger lockdown ahead of the first Covid wave, he actually said “I must level with you, level with the British public, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time”. He wasn’t so much leve...

Updated 5 hours ago Conservative complacency offers an opportunity, but MPs now want follow-through Danny LawsonPA You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. It was at just after dawn, at 5.14 am, that Keir Starmer was passed the intel that his party was close to winning its first new MP under his leadership. Already wide awake at his north London home, he got the news from the local campaign team in Batley and Spen that the Tories had called for a “bundle check” of votes at the by-election count.

Moderates hope for a ‘clean sweep’. But Howard Beckett thinks he’s got the momentum.

Foreign hols looking unlikely but the real danger is how fast the Indian variant spreads at home