Fear of both a Corbyn government and an enraged grassroots seems to be keeping Tory MPs together in the crucial votes.
What is needed is professional, third party review and analysis of expenditure, department by department, cutting out duplication and waste.
This Withdrawal Agreement would leave us half in and half out of the EU as a ‘vassal state’. It is a denial of the votes of 17.4 million people to leave the EU.
The Chancellor has been fortunate that the public finances have improved substantially at a particularly convenient time.
It is the spending that needs to be controlled and reduced, rather than taxes increased yet further.
The tax take is at its highest ever, and yet the Government is looking at ways to raise yet more taxes.
The alternative is endlessly loading more costs onto the young via taxation, when they are already significantly worse off than their parents.
All teenagers should be taught at school about the structure of the British constitution – this would help improve the engagement and basis of knowledge for local government elections.
The Government should return to the approach championed in 1988, and abandon the practice of punishing landlords.
Some of the powers it proposes to give to ministers are not democratically acceptable. But peers should correct these flaws, not seek to block Brexit itself.
The alarmism of Osborne and others has proved to be baseless – instead, our existing strengths in financial services position us to grow even stronger.
I understand the Government’s keenness to achieve a free trade agreement with the EU, but we need to be careful that the price is not too high.
Young people eat out, often several times a week – my fiancée and I could only afford to eat out once a month at most. They are also better paid, absolutely and relatively.