If the Rwanda scheme succeeds, it will be a personal vindication for Sunak. But it will also show that Parliament works. If not, however unfairly, it will be the Government voters blame for the failure.
You wouldn’t think so from either country’s discourse, but France has been our ally for the better part of two centuries.
The economic facts will not care about a change in government. Britain is still going to have to start living within its means, and that is going to mean cuts.
The claim that the Tories are anti-Muslim because Lee Anderson was a Tory does not stack up when he was kicked out precisely because his views were incompatible with the party’s principles.
The task of changing public opinion falls to the wider conservative movement – to pressure groups, think-tanks, columnists, and associated auxiliaries. The trouble is that, at the moment, most of the people in those categories are training their fire on the Conservative Party.
Returns agreements arguably have a bigger role to play; speedier processing is also part of the answer. But to pretend that deterrence plays no part in people’s calculations is silly.
No decent person can support piracy or missile attacks on peaceful merchant vessels. Someone has to defend the global order. Not for the first time, that someone is the Anglo-American alliance.
Rather than giving them more powers, as Labour will do if it wins the next general election, we should make them more transparent.
A world in which Russian warmongering prevailed over British and American promises would be one where the advantage had passed decisively to the autocracies.
Ukrainians fear that the horrors in Gaza and Israel are hogging the attention their Western backers. Some suspect that Vladimir Putin and his Iranian allies encouraged the Hamas atrocities precisely to open a second front against the democracies.
The Peronist client state, which defeated the only previous president to have spoken of reforms, will fight furiously to defend its privileges. Milei, who has had mental health problems in the past, and who lacks organised support, will come under almost unbearable pressure.
We should say so because we care about an international order based on rules. Every country has an interest in that order – Israel, in the long run, more than most.
My guess is that, having been caught off guard, Israel’s leaders have no idea of how things might end, and are scrambling to put a plan in place.
It is now impossible to imagine a prosperous, normal nation, integrated into the global economy and full of businesses keen on strong relations with Israel.
The continent’s economic woes are confined to the business pages, whilst the scandalous conduct of the European Parliament is simply unreported.