Townsend v Stonewall
“The single biggest issue…when I announced I was standing as Surrey’s Police Commissioner were concerns about gender self-identification.”
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 9) High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) 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.
Tugendhat and Baron. One well known, the other less. But it’s Baron who speaks for more voters on intervention.
The harsh reality is that no British Government would seek to replicate the role of the Americans in Afghanistan without them.
Afghan refugees and channel boats
What’s likely to follow the setting-up of Johnson’s special scheme along the lines of Cameron’s Syrian one.
Afghanistan and America 1) Why British security policy is dangerously exposed
Can we really afford to get on the front foot against Russia and China at once as the United States trends towards isolationism?
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 8) Charities 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.
Hinds’ return to government sends a signal to ex-Ministers. Keep your nose clean and there’s a way back.
Like Brokenshire, who he replaces as Security Minister, he is willing to return to government at a lower rank.
Johnson the Earl, Cummings the heiress – and the Downton Abbey marriage cursed before it began
Our regret that he is no longer in place is cancelled out by his own suggestion that he shouldn’t really have been doing his job at all.
COP26. Have you gone vegan yet, Minister?
The upsides and downsides for the Government of COP26 – and how its green policy is exposed to Treasury resistance and backbench revolt.
Rishi Thorneycroft? Or Rishi Selwyn Lloyd? (Or neither?)
Keynesian Macmillan got through four Chancellors in six years. We hope that Boosterist Johnson, who’s already lost one, doesn’t see this as a precedent.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 7) Elections 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.
Party members believe Johnson is performing poorly. But they expect the Tories to win the next election – a source of strength for him.
The proportion of our panel members expecting a Conservative-led government next time round hasn’t fallen below 87 per cent this year.
The Conservatives, money – and how the ghost of James Goldsmith triumphantly stalks Number Ten
Ben Elliott, Zac Goldsmith, Carrie Johnson, poker, wild animals, the Prime Minister himself – and a whiff of the Clermont Club.
Sunak leads our first Next Tory Leader survey in two years
He has more than twice the support of the second-placed Truss. Mordaunt is third. No-one else makes it to double percentage figures.
Our survey. More Party members are dissatisfied than satisfied with the Prime Minister’s handling of Covid.
The fall mirrors the slippage in the Conservative rating in the national opinion polls during the past fortnight.