“We have never said this.” Selmayr tweets a response to Hands’ ConHome article about him and Weyand.
The Secretary-General of the European Commission denies that either of them want to punish Britain.
Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.
The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.
Universal Credit. Noble aim, thorny problems – and Rudd’s decision. If the scheme is to work properly, it must be paid for.
If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.
Testing our survey against the latest polling of Party members. New evidence on Next Tory Leader.
Johnson has topped an ESRC poll, as he did our last survey. Its findings are even better for Brexiteers than ours were.
The first department to need boosting post-March. The Treasury? Business? Transport? No: Northern Ireland.
The challenge to “our precious union” will be as much constitutional as economic – Deal, No Brexit…or No Deal especially.
Let’s turn Railways Day into Scrap HS2 Day
“How would you feel if we spent the money on local transport links in the Midlands and the north?’’ Gove asked Conservative MPs last year.
Will this be the year in which the British people “come to heel”?
If May’s deal goes down, three words from John Kerr last year will highlight a choice for this new one.
Our survey. Next Tory leader. Johnson is top again. Javid second, Raab third. Hunt is now fourth.
There are three contenders in double figures, one well ahead of the other two – and a very long tail of names in single figures,
Our survey. Support for No Deal hardens as it becomes more likely.
That’s the only sensible way of reading a firming-up of support for the option among our Members’ Panel.
Redwood and Streeter knighted
The former award explodes the conspiracy theory that honours are being given only to backers of May’s deal.
Our survey. Three in five Party members expect a Conservative-led Government after the next election.
The story of the year is of an expectation rise through the first half of the year…until the Chequers summit in July.
“For mighty dread had seized their troubled mind”
Unlike the angel, we’re unable to announce tidings of great joy. But it’s worth mulling why the Christmas season can pause even Brexit hostilities.
Exclusive. “In a timely manner”. The best part of six months on, the Party’s inquiry clears Johnson over his burka column.
Launched amidst the inevitable blaze of publicity, the decision has been smuggled out like the fabled thief in the night.
When does an unmanaged No Deal become a managed No Deal?
This morning, despite claims it would never happen, we seem to have a unicorn made flesh – just in time for Christmas.
Brexit, the backstop, Anglo-Irish relations – and learning from Burke
We need a new strategic partnership with Ireland. At the moment, that end seems endlessly remote.