The drop roughly parallels the polling fall in confidence among the general public – though a seven out of ten rating is healthy enough.
Given the sensitivity of the public to mass immigration, what’s the explanation for our panel’s return above?
For a country deep in debt, lofty thoughts are not enough to justify such huge numbers of students doing things that don’t help them economically,
And it makes next to no difference whether or not the question asked is about resignation or dismissal.
Worse, its judgement has knock-on implications for the effectiveness of government. Urgent corrective legislation is needed.
As one side becomes more sensitive to perceived breaches of neutrality, the other becomes less willing or able to accept when it has erred.
Disraeli’s impudence and audacity, demonstrated in this collection of his sayings, cast light on the present Prime Minister’s conduct.
The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.
China is undermining its own commitments, and we should return rights to Hong Kong’s BNOs that we took from them. But that’s only a first step.
He’s a distraction and so can’t possibly have his mind on the job. But the Guardian and Mirror got a lot of the story wrong – and should apologise.
He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.
“The new Sue Gray” – responsible for policing propriety and ethics – may yet be asked to rule whether Johnson’s adviser has behaved improperly.
With its objective being British sovereignty, Johnson’s government can justify economic disruption better than the EU.
They owe him and Johnson their seats – and won’t save themselves by turning on him. If necessary, they should lose the whip.
Enraged voters are not his target: he is zeroing in on the mass of questioning teachers and parents.