His understated, unpretentious, unexciting style of politics works well in the context of local government. Could it be transposed to Westminster?
“As frictionless trade as possible” is not a good enough rallying cry to restore the Prime Minister’s authority.
Grieve behaved with the prudence of the Grand Old Duke of York, but suggested everyone has gone mad.
The German Chancellor faces a rebellion from her Bavarian allies on the question of immigration – and is pleading for more time before the EU summit.
In his new book, Ferdinand Mount looks at twelve great political thinkers and says what’s wrong with each of them.
Michael McManus uses the theatre to explore the potential for an anti-immigrant party to break away not from the Tories, but from Labour.
Last-minute concessions appear to have saved the Government from defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill
The Prime Minister’s followers today decided to stop concealing their misgivings.
The veteran LGBT campaigner says the former Prime Minister’s aides “were terrified I might try and kiss him, or superglue myself to the Cabinet table”.
The comedy and horror of Thorpe’s trial, and of the 1970s, are caught in this book and television series.
It is an extremely tough task to prepare to be a constitutional monarch, or indeed to take on the actual role.
The Labour leader claimed the Tories are privatising the NHS, and May sheltered behind what Labour did in power.
The Party Chairman intends to remove from the candidates’ list those who failed to campaign in the local elections.
Ed Husain has written an excellent account of the Islamic world, and of the inability of doctrinaire secularists to comprehend it.
A key reason why the line was unprofitable is that Network Rail failed to deliver improved infrastructure – and it’s already in public hands.