All news by author: Kevin Maguire

Keir Starmer's caution as leader of Labour has carried the party to the brink of power and his team are already looking ahead to their first 100 days in government

Denied the establishment knighthood he so sweatily craved, Mr Farage’s gleeful mission is now to smash the Conservatives, then either colonise or replace them, writes Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire

Landslide poll leads projecting massed hordes of Labour MPs and near extinction of the Conservative Party ahead of the real thing on July 4 – Britain’s independence from Tories day – signposts a political earthquake

'This Tory manifesto feels the most irrelevant of 10 General Elections I’ve covered for the Daily Mirror and other media,' writes Kevin Maguire

One Conservative former Minister screamed to me that Sunak is now a worse leader even than Johnson or Truss. It’s that bad

'Rishi Sunak screamed tetchiness, everything somebody else’s fault, opening with a grotesque lecture to a woman too poor to turn on her oven,' writes Kevin Maguire

Way ahead on points, the Labour challenger’s aware he doesn’t need to take unnecessary risks when staying off the canvass would be sufficient to take the Downing Street title

Rishi Sunak is admittedly pugnacious in head-to-heads, jabbing away noisily and happy to punch below the belt, Associate Editor Kevin Maguire says in his analysis of the General Election

Wally without a brolly Rishi Sunak had the desperate air of a man who knows his time is up as he finally called a General Election today, writes the Mirror's Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

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Britain’s richest leader in modern history is tone-deaf, as is his multi-millionaire Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. People count their pennies and know they’re squeezed under the Tories

By threatening benefit cuts to the poor and desperate while flying asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Tories have proved they are completely out of ideas, writes Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire

If Rishi Sunak were stronger he would publicly defenestrate his predecessors, particularly Truss but the cowardly PM doesn’t do so because he is a hostage, terrified of a backlash from Conservative MPs and Tory members

The frightening moral collapse of the Tories is cementing the near inevitable defeat of a party that goes into the next election with most people worse off than at the last and public services crumbling

Predictions that Farage might suspend his money-making to lead Reform from the front and overtake the Tories would be the cherry on Labour’s cake

Almost half of homeless families in temporary accommodation have been stuck there for more than two years and there are more than one million on council and social housing waiting lists

Wallowing at the bottom of most polls the Tories are resorting to divisive culture war issues to drum up support, but bread and butter issues will decide the next election

Some 58 Tory MPs have already announced they are quitting next time around but the figure could top 100 – by some counts even 150

Boris Johnson rashly endorsed a Trump triumph as “what the world needs” with a caveat about still supporting Ukraine which is why it’s more important that Rishi Sunak and David Cameron break diplomatic convention to publicly identify him as an unacceptable risk

Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire asks where the debate has gone over whether Britain should be bombing Houthis in Yemen, or why millions are being spent on big military projects that don't work

Union leader Mark Serwotka tells Kevin Maguire how his career and life were jeopardised when his heart was damaged in 2000 after catching a virus his dog got from a dead fox

Rishi Sunak is branded a "hypocrite with the political morals of ousted Boris Johnson" by the Mirror's Kevin Maguire, who believes Keir Starmer will be Prime Minister next New Year's Day

Every man and woman for themselves – doing and saying what is in their own best interests – is a case of rats abandoning Sunak’s sinking ship.

Deranged Tories calling for the return of Boris Johnson on a nightmare ticket with Nigel Farage are lost in the past.

'The next election is about damage limitation, saving seats, minimising defeat for the Tories when Keir Starmer has one foot in Downing Street already'