Officials, advisers and Ministers will always need external expertise: what we need are conservative-minded experts.
Also: Dugdale attacks Scottish Conservatives as the “Brexit party”; Welsh Tories attack Jones’ ‘snub’ to local airport; and more.
His debut column: answers to key questions.
Achieving the right Brexit deal is the key. This would be a good deal easier if everyone agreed what the right deal looked like.
Whatever your view about the desirability of the former, the Prime Minister is under no obligation to sign up to it.
It’s predominately a tight-knit group of former staffers who’ve worked together before. No change there. But it has a more provincial and state school feel.
Despite the parlous state of the country’s legal system being an open secret amongst British judges, they must accept it – thanks to the European Arrest Warrant.
We were told that we needed the EU to get trade deals agreed that would help us. Now look at what’s happened.
Schools in America do not teach religion, but culture and values instead.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
Polling by Shelter showed that such a scheme that tackled the housing crisis and gave the low-paid a helping hand on to the housing ladder would also be hugely popular.
The new Government can’t realistically aim to target its programme on everyone. To govern is to choose.
What is your preferred relationship with the EU? Also: how well are the members of the Cabinet performing?
Not least: what if any research was done into potential weather problems before the contract was signed in 2011?