When will the next general election take place?
Don’t assume that it will necessarily happen only after the boundary review has come into effect.
No, we’re not returning to the 1970s
Yes, there’s a move back to a bigger state and higher taxes. But the context is different, and perhaps more daunting.
Levelling up. All you need is a little bit of love (for the moment).
But to make it mean much in the longer-term, Johnson will need to take the plunge and commit to localism.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 12) Health and Care Bill
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Abroad, Johnson calls for fewer emissions. Here, Kwarteng aims to keep some going.
That the Business Secretary must do so is a reminder of an under-stressed aim of policy: security of supply.
An open letter to Oliver Dowden
You won’t make a habit of rubbing Ben Elliot up the wrong way. But you should push to co-chair the Board. To make an impact, you must wield authority.
AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific. A tilt to it, yes. A lunge, no.
Putin’s Russia is closer to home – remember the Salisbury attack – and Islamist extremism is already here.
Meet the Gove-rnment. Five takeaways from the reshuffle.
Where Buckland stroked, will Raab kick? Spending review handbags, sorry, fireworks. Zahawi’s groaning in-box. Johnson’s powers of recovery.
“He looked more than ever like Genghis Khan meditating a purge of his captains”
The point of the reshuffle is not only, or even primarily, to bring a cutting edge to reform. It is to tighten the grip of Johnson’s chunky fist on power.
How anti-vax and Zero Covid campaigners mutually boost the prospect of more lockdowns
Ministers should be more resistant to calls for new shutdowns than they have been to pressure for more money.
A new market in long-term fixed rate mortgages?
Building more houses is a necessary but not sufficient means of ensuring rising home ownership for younger people.
Johnson, Sunak, tax and spending. The former strains to soar skywards. The latter keeps tugging him back to earth.
Conservative governments can raise tax rates temporarily as part of a clear plan – which wasn’t the case with last week’s announcement.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 11) Subsidy Control Bill
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Twenty years on from 9/11, is there more or less Islamist extremism in Britain?
There is resistance to it among British Muslims at a local level. But national campaigning against it has never really taken off.
Health and Social Care 1) Minutes of a Downing Street meeting
ConHome has the record of how Johnson, Sunak & Javid came up with their plan. In a manner of speaking…