The author recalls the high hopes with which Blair entered power in 1997, and the extreme difficulty of devising a viable European policy.
This obscure but vital body enables Tory MPs to wield decisive power.
Tomorrow’s spectacle is better understood as poetry than in the severely rational terms of democratic theorists who accept no need for religion and ritual.
Pundits are scornful, and see “blue on blue” violence, when actually the Conservative Party is holding the necessary national argument.
Johnson’s task is to hire the right people and back them as long as they are getting things done, no matter who they offend in the process.
Its future is not yet in the bag, but it has made a remarkably assured start. Much now depends on the genius of its editors.
Churchill in his Liberal days wore with pride the scar inflicted on his forehead by the copy of Commons Standing Orders hurled at him by an enraged Tory in 1912.
The Chamber’s culture change is for the worse – and it serves voters ill at a time when the country’s future is threatened.
The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.