John Downer: Scrapping HS2 wouldn’t help the North, it would cut a vital lifeline to the regional economies
Crucial investment in local rail infrastructure isn’t an alternative to the new line, it depends on it.
- A snap election and a Tory nightmare. Losing seats in London without gaining them elsewhere.
- Interview: Francois insists that the ERG wants the backstop ditched altogether – not tweaked
- Daniel Hannan: What is driving this chaos? I’ll tell you. The EU is determined to punish us.
- Jonathan Clark: Representative democracy is waning, direct democracy is waxing. So its MPs themselves who will “come to heel”
- No Deal can’t be “taken off the table”
- The different Brexit amendments – a cribber’s guide
- WATCH: Corbyn will “sit down with Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRA…yet he won’t meet me to talk about Brexit”
- May and Corbyn do nothing to raise their backbenchers’ spirits
- Nick Boles: Like all revolutionaries, once-reasonable Brexiteers slide towards ever greater radicalism
- Blair’s Brexit redemption moment. Amen! Alleluia! (Just don’t mention the I – – q W – r.)
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