Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 6) Animal Welfare (Sentience) 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.
The Northern Ireland Protocol’s “serious societal difficulties”
By making it formally clear that the Government thinks the Protocol is unworkable, Johnson, Frost and Lewis have stepped into the unknown.
Will Starmer give vaccine passports a free pass?
The Government’s scheme is deeply problematic and there’s a potential Commons majority against it.
ConservativeHome to bring back its Next Tory Leader survey
We plan to send it out to our panel of party members roughly four times a year rather than monthly as previously.
Johnson puts the case for more localism in England. Now he must deliver it.
The more radical his plans are, the more resistance there will be. But one can’t serve up a municipal omelette without breaking eggs.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 5) Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) 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.
In the contest between Patel and Tyrone Mings, will there really be “only one winner”?
The Government has got itself into trouble over taking the knee. But the Left’s wider problem with patriotism counts for much more.
Tory generations divide. The 24 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government’s 0.7 per cent aid cut plan.
No fewer than seven former Cabinet Ministers revolted. But they were joined by only one 2019 intake member.
The Government’s aid manoeuvre. Sunak retreats to advance – as he sends a signal about the future control of spending.
By reminding backbenchers of manifesto commitments on debt control, he is squaring up for battles to come over the spending review.
England whose England?
Amidst all that football talk about Englishness, the Government has been preparing to end English Votes for English Laws.
Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 4) The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts 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.
Southgate and politics. That he’s good at football doesn’t mean that he’d be good at government.
Those who think otherwise are yearning for a more simple world – and, on the Left, for a different Prime Minister (having quietly given up on Starmer).
Brady’s re-election will make any future Covid lockdowns more difficult to achieve
Tory backbenchers have thumbed a nose at Downing Street by returning the leader of the Party’s internal opposition.
Covid and flu. The NHS was made for the people, not the people for the NHS.
The Government shouldn’t let the lockdowns of the last year become a precedent for the future each time the system comes under strain.
After three by-elections and before tomorrow’s Covid announcement, here are five big challenges for Johnson
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.