Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.
Inside the ERG’s Brexit plans. Why Rees-Mogg doesn’t believe the hype about ‘Blue Wave’ entryism. Plus: how he spent his summer.
Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?
Plus: Crunch point on Brexit. Farewell to Biteback. Bannon’s loose tongue and persistent loyalty. And: face to face with Jacqui Smith.
We are so preoccupied with Brexit and Putin that we may have missed the significance of the President’s latest sacking-and-replacement.
It can be hard to look past the President’s excesses – but the realities of government and the economy tell a more mixed story than you might assume.
His high-risk legislative strategy seems to be based on writing off 2017-18, and relying on the midterm elections returning a much more supportive caucus.
No president should be an island. Indeed, no president can afford to be.
Since the strike on Syria, Bannon’s influence is waning while Kushner’s waxes.
Republican lawmakers who don’t back Trump but have supported his agenda so far now have a real window of opportunity for opposition.
The element of surprise can work if it outfoxes the opposition, but not if shocks your own side.