We will have a pro-Leave President and may get a trade deal. But we face a threat to the security umbrella that has protected us and our neighbours since the war.
Trump will soon lead what is still the most powerful country in the world, and we shouldn’t break with it until or unless we have to.
It’s easy, even comforting, to stick a simple narrative onto the election result. But it would be a mistake.
It would be more cost-effective and more fair to adjust the planned increases in the income tax personal allowance.
I have two such schools in my constituency. But I don’t share the enthusiasm of some of my colleagues for lifting the ban.
The campaign against the paper is not so much about a headline last week, but about shifting the balance of media power to the left.
The present accounting rate is wrong, and the Government should intervene if necessary to ensure that it is put right.
I believe that officers at all levels should be elected at a general meeting following as soon as is practical after a general election.
The balance of the argument is against one as matters stand. But May will have no alternative but to go to the country if Parliament frustrates Brexit or her negotiation.
And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.
Whether or not May wants an early election is beside the point: recent events illustrate why governments shouldn’t be imprisoned in office.
The decision of the EU to restrict Switzerland’s access to scientific funding after they voted to limit freedom of movement sets a worrying precedent.
Obama said post-Brexit Britain would be at “the back of the queue”, but the President-elect wants us to be first in line for a trade deal.