The problem facing Britain is not that prices are too high, but that the safety net – which Tories have always supported – is too low.
Once taxation and National Insurance were deducted, his take-home pay had increased by £15 a month.
Without passing judgement on the views of another era, it is clear that MPs never envisioned the sort of inflow we have seen in the decades since.
His archivist writes that this agreement has succeeded…in recovering powers which some thought had been lost permanently”.
Besides, the cash-strapped Chancellor will need to raise revenue from somewhere. Here are some points to consider before going ahead.
Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.
Over the past few decades our constitution has been so corroded that the likes of Powell, Benn, Crossman, and Foot would struggle to recognise it.
If artists are so unwilling to accept the support of industrial companies, perhaps they should be prepared to live off box office receipts alone.
Christ’s resurrection certainly doesn’t help us out on Brexit – unless it be to remind us of the Christian virtues of temperance and respect.
That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.
When a ‘right-wing’ politician is nominated for a plaque, it is almost bound to be controversial with ‘the left’. Tories are much more generous.
By 2022, Corbyn will no longer look ‘new’, and that he came close to winning in 2017 should mean that he will then be exposed to far greater scrutiny,
It is incumbent on all of us who have participated in the EU debate, on both sides, to confess to some sins and omissions.
The moral strictures of hard-line green activists are no foundation for a sensible energy policy.