The attempt this week to silence her when she spoke in Oxford has had the opposite effect of making her and her arguments far better known.
Pandemic and war, like two horsemen of the Apocalypse, leave the Chancellor scrabbling for a response.
Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.
In the weeks before recess, trans rights activists became more vocal in their efforts to stop Truss’s reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
And he asks: why did the Women and Equalities Select Committee choose an adviser open to the charge of being parti pris?
Onward, FREER, the revitalised CPS. The Tory MPs involved in all these will have to take some risks if they’re to get off the groumd.
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
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For all the Government’s failures, she was making a bold, brave argument. It may offend the zeitgeist within the M25, but it resonates in the bigger Britain.
The Employment Minister understands how vulnerable many people are, and that to find work they need help and encouragement, not just rugged individualism.
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