Starmer pops up in the Daily Telegraph’s opinion section from time to time, and this won’t have gone unnoticed in Downing Street.
And this is the fundamental problem: it allows us to dodge a broader long-term industrial strategy, precisely because the short-term labour fix is so easy.
What these messages reveal – if we needed telling – is that politicians and scientists were overwhelmed by a crisis for which they were unprepared and did not understand.
The ex-Prime Minister tells Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls that she’s “not desperate to get back into Number 10”.
Leavers and Remainers have been premature to judge this major constitutional change.
This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.
His critics generally ignore the nation as it is, and keep their eyes fixed on the nation as it ought to be.
Absent a clearly articulated strategy business uncertainty will heighten, and severe non-compliance is risked
A common threat, especially in the form of a pathogen, flicks switches in our brains, making us less tolerant of dissent.
Plus: Why won’t Corbyn come on LBC and give an interview? He hasn’t done once since becoming Labour leader.
The real flaw in Graham’s film was the implication that Vote Leave won by turning the European question into something else.
And he asks: why did the Women and Equalities Select Committee choose an adviser open to the charge of being parti pris?
These concerns, however, often only add to the need for us to remain ethically and democratically engaged, particularly regarding the most emotive cases.
They may very well decide that if the establishment wants Johnson gone so badly he must be doing something right.