Also: SNP plunged into fresh controversy over misleading claim about healthcare spending, whilst Kate Forbes gears up for an internal battle over the Scottish Government’s income tax plans.
Whilst the clergy can’t wash their hands of their role in appearing to facilitate “industrial scale” conversion to game the system, it is the Government that sets the rules of the game.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has returned after the Democratic Unionist Party accepted a deal for some adjustments to the trade border in the Irish Sea.
The new First Minister of Northern Ireland talks to Sky News. Would she accept an invitation to an Orange march?
“I think every single one of us as an MP could give you a list of death threats and threats of attack that we receive on pretty much a weekly basis.”
Also: the Welsh Government’s ‘Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales’ has reported and you’ll never guess, but they think Cardiff Bay needs even more powers.
The MP for Finchley and Golders Green describes the pattern of abuse that has led him to announce his intention to resign from Parliament at the general election.
A televised spectacle was never going to yield honest testimony about why the Scottish Government deleted its own paper trail, but it could yet do serious damage to the already-ailing SNP.
Changes to the definition of the family could have serious consequences for tax, inheritance law, and other important areas. Yet the politicians are leaving the new definition up to the judges.
With yet another compromise on Northern Ireland – and on its place in the United Kingdom – the Democratic Unionist Party may yet suffer the same doom it inflicted on the Ulster Unionists before them.
The Democratic Unionist leader is under huge pressure from former allies who claim his settlement falls far short of the Seven Tests his party set out in 2021.
However, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s demand for a mere Commons vote on every treaty is a poor substitute for the real, much less fashionable solution.
His party walked out of Stormont because of the trade border which Theresa May and Boris Johnson introduced between Northern Ireland and the mainland during the Brexit negotiations. Despite some wild overselling of the Windsor Framework last year, that border has not gone away.
Our deputy editor argues that there is a fundamental tension between the traditional conception of ministerial accountability and the modern tendency to govern through quangos and arms-length bodies.
Rishi Sunak should build on the recent progress in Northern Ireland to impress upon Dublin the urgency of stepping up our efforts to counter Russian, Chinese, and Iranian threats to our joint security.