His critics think he is “a busted flush”: how eager he will be to demonstrate that he is, on the contrary, serious.
The author has the abilities of a sketchwriter, but not of Edmund Burke.
The joint One Nation Caucus and Tory Reform Group conference last weekend, following the recent National Conservative Conference, are pointers to the shape of a possible future.
The former leadership candidate reveals some of his former colleagues have tried to kill themselves because of the ‘almost unsustainable’ nature of their roles.
This book will delight many of those who see the Brexit PM as a disgrace.
There may be a greater role for community sentences, but not as an alternative because the state cannot deliver, or will not pay for, a proper prison system.
Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet ministers have repeatedly lent support to activist groups that seek to reduce police powers to crack down on those very same gun-toting gangs.
In a politics over-stocked with PPE graduates from Oxford, she has shown that a Liverpudlian who left school at 16 can triumph.
He is a liberal on the run, never stopping for long enough in one place to be pinned down, but soaring instead into the higher platitudes.
What’s likely to follow the setting-up of Johnson’s special scheme along the lines of Cameron’s Syrian one.
“If we don’t provide support for people in Afghanistan they’re ultimately going to find their way into Europe”, warns the former DfID Secretary.
His capacity to win some of his severest critics round, and persuade them of his “greatness of soul”, helps explain his success.