All news by author: Kevin Maguire

The Tories are smearing key workers trying to protect their wages as prices soar and demonising poor households needing the Welfare State - hostility has become their hallmark, argues Kevin Maguire

Suella Braverman was reportedly branded a "real racist bigot" by an ex-minister from Boris Johnson’s government and Kevin Maguire feels she is "chronically incompetent"

Labour should be tough on crime but must not fight the Tories in the gutter after last week's revolting attack ad - the fact that nobody is taking direct responsibility is telling in itself

Nurses, teachers, firefighters, police, council workers, armed forces and everybody else hurting in a terrible cost of living crisis can’t just Braverman-style fill in a form.

You’ve got to laugh when the Tories falsely claimed Britain was bankrupt under Labour, despite national debt being more of a steep hill than today’s mighty mountain

With nearly one third of the young people Electoral Commission believes are adrift less likely to choose Tory, Kevin Maguire argues more should be done to let everyone get the chance to vote

The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party

Tory MPs are keen to talk about migrant boats the Gary Lineker row rather than how they have made a mess of the economy and the NHS, writes the Mirror's Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire says "venomous" Tories are still fighting among each other while the rest of the nation struggles with economic failure, falling living standards and declining public services

There’s a touch of ingenuity in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s scheme, yet by putting the DUP and his own Tory party's enemies on the backfoot, victory may still fail to strengthen him

Kevin Maguire examines the Conservative Party's downward spiral into chaotic infighting as the inept and splintered governing party descends into complete pandemonium

Neil Coyle MP was warned by medics of the massive risk to his health as he would drink three or four pints of lager an hour in Parliament's Strangers' Bar, and is now completely sober

Determined to march in lockstep with Rishi Sunak to flee the Jeremy Corbyn era, Labour leader Keir Starmer elevates Nato to holy grail status

The Conservatives have made the UK an international embarrassment but, come Autumn next year, Brits will finally be able to take their revenge by voting them out

Kevin Macguire looks at how Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak being at loggerheads is bad news for all of us as Truss tries to blame everyone but herself

Rishi Sunak, who marks 100 days as Prime Minister this week, and "unpopular" Boris Johnson are proving why the "Conservative Party’s unfit to govern," argues associate editor Kevin Maguire

Former TUC General Secretary John Monks told the Mirror there has been a dislike of trade unions within the Tories ever since Margaret Thatcher succeeded Ted Heath in 1975

Tax penalties, police fines, security breaches, bullying and using the RAF as a personal air taxi service - all are engulfing Rishi Sunak's government much like scandals in the late 90s did to John Major's Tories

The economy crash, the NHS crisis, Covid and the invasion of Ukraine don’t explain why we’re doing worse than similar nations, so Rishi Sunak will struggle to escape the grave

Kevin Maguire argues that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is completely out of touch with ordinary working people as strike action grinds on into the New Year across the UK

After last year’s economic and political nightmares, Mystic Mag peers into his crystal ball to predict what further horrors lie in store as Tories lurch from one disaster to the next