Gavin Williamson

Ex-education secretary Gavin Williamson takes £50k second job with education firm

Exclusive: former minister will spend 80 hours a year chairing advisory board of RTC Education

Rowena Mason Deputy political editor

29, Jun, 2022 @4:30 PM

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: ex-Tory MP urges inquiry into why Iran debt went unpaid

Alistair Burt, previously a Foreign Office minister, queries delay to payment of cash that freed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

21, Mar, 2022 @5:56 PM

When our honours system wasn’t such a joke | Letter

Letter: Jeremy Yapp remembers a time when innovation, vision, selflessness and hard work were rewarded

Letters

07, Mar, 2022 @5:03 PM

Housework’s happier with a human touch | Brief letters

Brief letters: Real cleaners | Sir Gavin | TV adaptations | MiniDisc memories

Letters

04, Mar, 2022 @5:52 PM

Just when No 10 wants to be taken seriously, it creates Sir Gavin Williamson | Marina Hyde

It’s hard to believe Boris Johnson will really crack down on Putin’s cronies, when he’s just knighted one of his own, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde

04, Mar, 2022 @2:23 PM

A knighthood for Gavin Williamson? The UK has its own comedian as PM | John Crace

How can Johnson be trusted to sanction Putin’s oligarchs when he shows such contempt for UK by knighting terrible minister

John Crace

03, Mar, 2022 @8:04 PM

Gavin Williamson – his blunders in full

Five incidents that explain why former Education Secretary’s knighthood has been condemned as a reward for failure

Peter Walker Political correspondent

03, Mar, 2022 @7:30 PM

Gavin Williamson awarded knighthood by Boris Johnson

MP presided over exams debacle after being sacked as defence secretary for alleged leak

Peter Walker Political correspondent

03, Mar, 2022 @5:15 PM

No 10 partying in lockdown: who enjoyed what and when

Wine and cheese, loud music and a leaving do were topped off with a Christmas party over 2020, allegedly, but ‘no rules were broken’

Rowena Mason and Aubrey Allegretti

09, Jan, 2022 @7:56 PM

Covid Christmas parties: timeline of government’s alleged festivities

Boris Johnson denies staff gatherings took place or rules were broken during last year’s lockdown

Léonie Chao-Fong

08, Dec, 2021 @12:05 AM

Boris Johnson’s bold reshuffle is a show of strength – and a sign of pressure | Katy Balls

If the prime minister is rewarding competence over loyalty, that’s because he knows he must deliver on his agenda, says the Spectator’s Katy Balls

Katy Balls

16, Sep, 2021 @11:01 AM

Reshuffle reveals the shallowness of the Tory gene pool of talent | John Crace

PM prizes uselessness above all with new jobs for the likes of Truss, Gove and Dorries