Freelance diplomacy in Venezuela sits at the intersection of Johnson’s three post-premiership priorities: remuneration, supporting Ukraine, and keeping himself in the public eye.
Universities need overseas students to cross-subsidise the domestic ones. The best way to solve this problem would be properly to fund domestic higher education funding.
The Prime Minister will want to avoid the trap that Gordon Brown created for himself in the autumn of 2007.
If this is the case for Conservative MPs, it is all the more important for their leader. Rishi Sunak should walk through the lobbies today and back the Committee.
Still less are civil servants paid to do so rather than getting on with the job – which taxpayers fund.
Where there is need, front line staff like doctors and nurses are underpaid, relative to what they should receive, and where there isn’t, a whole host of people are well paid.
Careless talk costs credibility – a point that politicians who like musing aloud about undesirable outcomes should bear in mind.
The Party Chairman responsible for fund-raising is playing for higher stakes than he may appreciate.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.
The media has suggested there is something suspect about the Conservative Party’s receipt of private money.
The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.
Ministers believe that the present legal framework isn’t fit for purpose if prosecutions of returning terrorists are to be successful.
It is clear from the Declaration that the Council’s directives for negotiating the future relationship with the UK have departed substantially from it.