The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.
We shouldn’t take the ideological pronouncements of the Commission as being set in stone. The member states may yet have their say.
It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.
Trump has already fallen out with parts of the intelligence and security services – and risks a rift over Russia with his own party too.
The Prime Minister’s priorities entail a hard Brexit, and are more important to her than economic stability.
Few noticed the Investigatory Powers Bill becoming law because all eyes are on the process of leaving the EU.
Such a deal would, on balance, be better than Most Favoured Nation Status. But MFN would be better than a bad deal – and giving up on regaining control of our borders.
It should raise some £250 million a year – enough to increase the UK’s borders budget by 50 per cent.
Also: Labour slumps to lowest levels in Welsh polls since last days of Brown’s premiership; and Scottish Tories accuse SNP of a ‘wasted decade’.
The Labour Party created an asymmetrical and unfair constitutional settlement. Brexit will exacerbate it.
The traditional Labour voters in this Cumbrian by-election seem to respect May more than they respect their own leader.
It’s time for mistaken claims to the contrary to be consigned to history.
Every period of university expansion in this country has met with opposition.
It would simply replicate all the worst faults of the NHS and create a new set of problems.