Gove is second, “Other” third. It is an astonishing turnaround for a man who three months ago was languishing on a mere two per cent.
The explanation may have less to do with confidence in the Conservatives than with a lack of confidence in Labour.
When it comes to making an appeal to Tory activists as well as MPs, the Defence Secretary is pushing at an open door. Party conference should be lively on this front.
May’s appeal next week at Chequers will be founded in grinding detail, not Churchillian rhetoric. Key to agreement will be taking Ministers with her and springing no untoward surprises.
He wants to take people with him in his quest to hit the Government’s target. But will radical policy ideas fit with his emollient political approach?
Six were from west or north London constituencies, plus Windsor’s Adam Afriyie and Sir David Amess of Southend West.
Some counter-intuitive, or at least counter-conventional, findings from a recent IFS report.
The hard paradox is that while older people are electorally powerful – perhaps more than ever – they are also individually vulnerable.
He was Theresa May’s PPS when she was Home Secretary, and has also been her PPS since she became Prime Minister.
Since she might not get an acceptable agreement, or indeed any at all, the Government must strain to get Ready for Day One, not Ready for Day 730.
Neither Tory MPs nor voters want a poll, but a paralysed Government and Parliament would make one all but unavoidable long before 2022.
Any eventual review of drugs policy as a whole must focus on collective consequences rather than individual rights.
The Vote Leave director is the onlie begetter of this cashfest. But we’ve said it before and say it again: Britain can’t tax its way to prosperity – or a better health service.