Today’s proceedings were about as watchable as a game of cricket where the batsman does not actually have to face the bowling in person.
Starmer attacks Johnson for breaking the “very broad consensus” on the constitution. The latter claims he meant the SNP’s record is the ‘disaster’.
Already bottom of the league of home nations in the PISA tables, this means we will fall further behind.
Also: true scale of the Irish Protocol’s impact on commerce, and Stormont’s ‘rank incompetence’, show how Ulster unionism needs a refresh.
The different administrations are all in different places with increasing bad blood between them. Also, devosceptics look set to win seats in Wales.
Funding that was wasted by the EU should not be handed over to be wasted by the Welsh Government.
The First Minister’s absurd decree banning the sale of ‘non-essential’ goods spotlights the tension between devolved lockdowns and reserved finances.
It worked so well the last ten times, after all. Also: Reckless defects to Abolish as controversy over Drakeford’s lockdown – and who’s paying – deepens.
Welsh ministers get soft-soaped while UK Government ministers face the full rigors of the national media
Gove says ministers will have to “look at the position” to bring the virus under control if agreement can’t be reached.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester warns that ‘trapping’ the city in Tier Three restrictions will do more harm than good.
The 70-strong Conservative Union Research Group wants to support the Government’s mission to strengthen the United Kingdom.
Also: the SNP paradox. Sturgeon gets sucked deeper into the Salmond scandal as independence soars in the polls.
The first report of a new commission finds that disparities are just as apparent within regions, cities and towns as they are between them.
We need a dedicated campaign team, treasurers to build a fighting fund, a mechanism for MPs to feed in ideas – and a Northern Party Board.