The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?
This minimalist manoeuvre, carried out in graveyard news time, suggests that a bigger reshuffle has been postponed until the other side of the year.
Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.
If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.
His best hope of success in British politics is to boost his chances in elections by dividing the Conservatives and plundering their vote.
We need to start listening to the right people – not hopeless people who get it wrong time and again, but face zero accountability.
We urged the Government last week to do so. Others are also on the case – and the Daily Mail this morning publishes its own findings.
An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.
Plus: virtual conferences are the way of the future. America’s vice-presidential debate worked. And: Fox deserved better from his WTO campaign.
His critics display the close-mindedness that they falsely suspect in him. Indeed, you won’t find a less partisan man.
If he is to take the necessary steps to get a Brexit deal (and I hope he does), he is going to have to defy those instincts on a second issue, too.
The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.
It is now open season on the Education Secretary, as it will continue to be until he resigns, is moved – or is sacked.
Researchers estimated that “a third and half of those reviewing a grant bid would mark it lower if it took a right-wing perspective”
Here’s both what his team did and how it communicated – deploying the discipline of the second to boost the first.