Instead of the widely predicted rebellion, only half a dozen Conservative parliamentarians were openly negative. Others preferred to dig into the detail.
The Left’s claims to favour an alternative path to academic excellence lack credibility.
Once explained, I immediately understood the need to change – but also the need to explain that change to our volunteers if we were going to make it a success.
The group wants a Hard Brexit. Either way, the Government should move Article 50 before next spring is over.
Juppe and Francois Fillon could pave the way for economic reform and an end to free movement.
The traditions and idiosyncrasies of our legislature are a precious inheritance, and the Prime Minister must preserve them.
The project is both a gift to the anti-nuclear brigade and testament to the industry’s failure to embrace cutting-edge technology.
Of 943 respondents only 22 think Labour will get into government, even as part of a coalition – rather disproving the idea that Tories are scared of Corbyn.
But her decision and other recent ones also raise the question of whether Ministers really hold sway in their own departments.
Also: Grammar schools are the wrong solution; the SNP boom while Labour slump; and why Davis is right about leaving the Single Market.
The future of local government will depend on whether May opts for cautious pragmatism or visionary radicalism. So far there are hints of each.
Kenneth Baker is backing vocational education practically and enthusiastically. But too many other members of the Conservative family just aren’t interested in it.
Trade negotiations aren’t a matter of one participant winning, but of two partners creating wealth together that they couldn’t make on their own.
The slogan was invented by Donald Trump in the 1980s, and has since been used to attack every new form of gambling. Each time it turns out to be bogus.
It wasn’t in your manifesto. And as a Liberal Democrat, I speak from experience when I say that letting people down on education can be very, very damaging.