Universities. The Conservatives will be “stepping up our speaker programme”. Here are some suggestions.
Boles isn’t as well known as the star of our Moggcast, but he is well-briefed, independent-minded and can make waves.
Blame Ministers in emperors’ new clothes – not naked civil servants
If you don’t like what the Treasury’s up to, criticise the Chancellor, who’s accountable for it – not those who work for him, who aren’t.
A bright start in our Cabinet League Table for McVey, Lewis, Hancock & Hinds. Hammond’s rating heads west.
And the Prime Minister, tenth in the table last time round, is back in negative territory and second from bottom.
Our survey – Next Tory leader. Three Brexiteers lead, as last month: Rees-Mogg, Gove and Johnson.
Respondents are much where they were a few weeks ago, for all the turmoil that has taken place since the reshuffle.
Our survey. Big rise in those saying May should leave Number Ten now. But a majority believes otherwise.
All in all, though, seven out of ten respondents want a new Party leader and Prime Minister in place before the next election.
Our survey. Confidence in a Tory-led government after the next election hits its lowest since the last one
It’s a sharp fall since last month and the month before, but not a collapse. The rating is back to roughly where it was in September and October.
Do the voices shouting down Sara Khan really represent Britain’s Muslims?
Polling suggests real concern among them about extremism. But one wouldn’t think so from the coverage of her appointment.
Why May should make it clear that she will not lead the Conservatives into the next election
Which is what she hinted at after the last one – and which would ease the pressures on her and help get the government back on its feet.
What Zahawi does in the daytime
Well, at least more people than previously now know he is Minister for Children and Families. What should be in his in-tray?
More money for the NHS? Don’t forget another big spending pressure point. More money for defence.
Brexit has transformed the context in which we plan our security. Commitments to our European neighbours and Global Britain require more money.
Education, housing, the environment: May’s campaigning priorities. And there is an NHS row. But what about the economy?
The Government had next to no living standards message at the election. It needs one now – and to explain how it fits in with those three priorities.
Last June’s election has transformed the debate about capitalism. May must find a strategic response.
Tactical newspaper articles are necessary but insufficient. She should make a series of speeches to set out her stall and try to change the weather.
Johnson’s Trump initiative. Repulsive – but Right.
The brutal reality is that Britain needs the country the President governs – and so by extension needs him too.
Why are audiences breaking into applause after the new Churchill film?
He was a man of Empire – not a little Englander, but a Great Britainer. One might also say a Global Britainer, which returns one to Brexit.
Discuss.
A Conservative MP tweets that “there is a timidity and lack of ambition about Mrs May’s Government which means it constantly disappoints”.