ToryDiary

The Government needs to engage and address people’s concerns. They will do the right thing with the right information.

And elsewhere, the scandal of Carl Beech and Operation Midland is a reminder that claims of victimhood aren’t always true.

The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.

How many SNP representatives, members and voters are already raising a glass to Bonnie Prince Alex – King over the Water?

It would surely not be hard to amend it to require ministers to seek the Commons’ authorisation more frequently than every six months.

Gavin Williamson is right to condemn disorder and threats in Batley, and the police should be taking an interest.

Although the Government may return to “travel corridors” between countries that have low Covid rates and/ or sound vaccination programmes.

English understatedness and reticence is all very well, but England isn’t the whole of the UK – and, like much else, Britishness needs its symbols.

A ‘two-tier’ asylum system that penalises illegal entry makes sense, but the reforms to citizenship law are a big missed opportunity.

The term is used to understand the views of people living in traditional Labour heartlands. But it’s more complicated than that.

Starmer attacked Johnson for promising not to cut the size of the Army, yet now doing exactly that.

If you want societies that seek to impose virtue by force, leave the rest of us to muddled old Britain, and try Jonestown.

Wallace has done well to win an exceptional defence settlement, but it may not be enough to fund all the Integrated Review’s ambitions.

He gave a brave speech to the Adam Smith Institute on some of the most contentious issues of our time.

During the last year, we’ve learned much about the Government – but far more about ourselves.