Starmer pops up in the Daily Telegraph’s opinion section from time to time, and this won’t have gone unnoticed in Downing Street.
The timing of this resignation will make sense if she’s on Johnson’s honours list. But it’s not clear that she is.
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative Party is that it becomes a supporting actor in the tragicomedy. David Cameron, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak: all have been upstaged. Who’s next?
Seventy-three per cent of respondents blames civil servants for the current difficulties. Only six per cent believe that they’re not responsible at all.
The caravan seems to have moved on a bit. But while the former Prime Minister is clearly a divisive figure, the average panel member also feels some sympathy for him.
She’s flawed, fallible, but right about migration. Hence the campaign to force her out. The choice for Sunak is whether to yield to it or not – since she doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong.
Maybe what the Conservative movement now wants – if not quite the Conservative Party itself – is a merger with the right-wing entertainment industry.
At its best in the past, Tory policy has been “tough on numbers, open to change”. If it becomes “lax on numbers, closed to change”, we’ll have the worst of both worlds.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
We see no evidence so far that the CDO’s activity justifies the publicity given to it in parts of the media.
If it’s really about “focusing on replacing the idea of individual natural rights with one of national identity fused with Christianity”, as one critic puts it, are Brits really up for it?
And here’s a summary of the claims and counter-claims that Labour and the Conservatives are making about last week’s local election results – and tactical voting v electorial tightening.
In which Labour would form a minority Government. To date, the Conservatives are down 16 councils and Labour are up six.
Blair said that he wanted Britain “to be a young country again”. It wasn’t one then and isn’t one now. There is a fittingness in King Charles being the oldest monarch ever to take our throne.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.