The point we are making is that the UK would be unlikely to enjoy settled EU membership, instead of the present Brexit talks crisis, had Leave lost.
Even the cut-off point of the end of transition, and the arrival of No Deal, won’t necessarily halt the negotiation.
He has secured a ‘mini-deal’ of the sort we were once told Brussels would not countenance – but there is room in the detail for a choir of devils.
Only with the benefit of hindsight will it be possible to see what game the Prime Minister is playing in the Brexit negotiations.
The sheer speed of vaccine invention and deployment marks a political win for him as well as a British triumph.
The commonsense presumption must be that he wouldn’t be going at all were a deal not at least possible.
Although they’re designed to remind people of the dates they got their jabs, it’s been hinted that they could be used in a similar way to the Test and Trace app.
Mandelson thinks that by aiming to gain everything on Brexit, Remainers ended up with nothing. There is more than one way of history repeating itself.
Johnson’s mandate, his party’s Brexit take, and his majority would make climbdown far less likely than escalation.
Evidence suggests the Government needs to tackle people’s anxiety, not conspiracy theories.
Talk of a new industrial revolution is all well and good, but the spirit that delivered the last one seems long gone.
Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.
That’s a comfortable majority. But almost three in ten do not – a significant minority. Thirteen per cent don’t know.
Starmer, accused of being a total abstainer, drew blood by recalling how the PM had once run away to Afghanistan.
One of the school’s teachers has been fired for making a video about differences between men and women.