Glory marches elsewhere alongside great successes, but true honour lies in the thankless fights.
EU regulations and directives do form a major block of domestic law and do generate a lot of business costs. We know this because Whitehall’s own past internal audits have revealed it, a field I have been tracking since John Major’s day.
Sitting back and playing safe didn’t save John Major, and it certainly won’t deliver a majority for Rishi Sunak.
The purpose of the BM is not to engage in social engineering. It is “to hold for the benefit and education of humanity a collection representative of world cultures, and ensure that the collection is housed in safety, conserved, curated, researched and exhibited”.
Any move to grab more powers next year is going to end badly for politicians in Brussels.
Kids Count has just launched an important new audit, which is the precursor to a much larger study into knife crime reviewing cause and effect.
Look at what he says, whom he idolises and the ideology that runs through his movement, and it’s a troubling picture.
Whitehall’s touted model is inherently flawed. It was ruled out during the referendum and by the Conservative manifesto.
Although some pretend the UK must choose between binary options, the reality of what is possible is rather different.
As Rumsfeldian as it may sound, a ‘No Deal Deal’ is entirely possible, where the majority of issues are settled through simple side agreements.
I have long been struck by the incredible stresses placed upon them by a system that is meticulous in its oppression across so many of the European institutions.
There are some risks to trade, but they should be rationalised and addressed rather than overhyped.
There still remains enough time to leave a genuine and defining legacy, that frames where the next government is heading, and reaffirms that Conservatism truly does seek to make people’s lives better.