Aubrey Allegretti

chief political correspondent

Aubrey Allegretti is chief political correspondent at The Times, based in Westminster. Previously he covered parliament and Whitehall for The Guardian, Sky News and HuffPost UK.

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Some MPs, peers and staff members could not sign in to their accounts

POLITICS

‘Catastrophic’ IT failure locks MPs out of system

MPs were prevented from accessing constituency casework and holding online meetings for several hours on Monday after a “catastrophic” IT...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

POLITICS

What Sunak said in his speech — and what he means

Rishi Sunak has compared Labour’s “dangerous” green investment plans to the “unfunded spending” decisions made by Liz Truss, as he put the...

Monday November 20 2023, 8.30pm, The Times

The Supreme Court ruled that the government’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda was unlawful

POLITICS

PM ‘will do what’s necessary’ on Rwanda despite cabinet row

Rishi Sunak has signalled that he is prepared to face down opposition in his own cabinet and opt out of European human rights laws to reboot the...

Monday November 20 2023, 4.00pm, The Times

POLITICS

We will cut taxes over time, Sunak says before autumn statement

Rishi Sunak has said that his government “can and will” cut taxes, but tempered expectations before Wednesday’s autumn statement by admitting...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.45pm, The Times

POLITICS

No 10 vows to stop activists climbing war memorials

Downing Street has called pro-Palestinian protesters who climbed a war memorial “an affront to our armed forces”, while vowing to give police...

Thursday November 16 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

In his time as prime minister Cameron interacted with Presidents Xi, Assad and Erdogan, and Colonel Gaddafi

IN DEPTH

Gaza, Gaddafi and Xi — Cameron’s foreign policy highs and lows since 2010

David Cameron’s foreign policy record during his six years in Downing Street and overseas business dealings since will come under heavy scrutiny

...

Thursday November 16 2023, 2.30pm, The Times

Suella Braverman said the government should legislate to disapply the European Convention on Human Rights

POLITICS

Braverman urges Tory MPs to pass new law to allow Rwanda scheme

Suella Braverman has called on Tory MPs to pass a controversial new law that would make the government’s Rwanda asylum scheme legal, warning that...

Wednesday November 15 2023, 5.20pm, The Times

Esther McVey will be able to attend cabinet as minister without portfolio

POLITICS

McVey given ‘anti-woke’ role to keep hardliners on side

Esther McVey has been handed a cabinet-level job as Rishi Sunak’s “common sense” tsar in an attempt to shore up his support on the right of the...

Tuesday November 14 2023, 12.01am, The Times

VIDEO

Hunt refuses to back Braverman as PM considers sacking her

Jeremy Hunt has become the most senior minister to publicly distance himself from Suella Braverman.

The

home secretary’s

future hangs in the...

Friday November 10 2023, 1.55pm, The Times

Jeremy Hunt with his shadow, Rachel Reeves, at the King’s Speech in parliament yesterday. The chancellor has so far resisted calls to cut taxes

POLITICS

Be bold on tax, Tories urge Hunt

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, is under growing pressure from ministers to be “bold and decisive” in his autumn statement after warnings that the...

Wednesday November 08 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Rishi Sunak’s legislative programme draws dividing lines with Labour — and his own party ranks

ANALYSIS

Has Sunak missed his chance to turn the tables on Labour?

The reaction to the King’s Speech from Tory MPs was relatively muted. The content of most of the 21 bills — the lowest number for nearly a decade...

Tuesday November 07 2023, 5.30pm, The Times

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