Our Survey. Johnson – doing very well. But way to go before he levels with…you know who
Almost nine in ten of our panel members say that he has much to do before he can be counted the equal of Margaret Thatcher.
Our survey. Gove is Minister of the Year.
He is one of the few elements of continuity in what has been a turbulent year at the Government’s top table.
The limits of support for One Nation. Our Survey.
Only one in three Party members, according to our poll, are unambiguously lined up behind the idea.
Season’s greetings to all our readers
The ConHome team wishes all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Christmas (and Brexit). Late in time behold them come.
Cynical and non-Christian though some of us may be, Leavers should take the point. Christmas is a sign that joy can break out. Just when it’s least expected.
Brexit. The story of 2019 in a single paragraph.
Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat…Total Complete & Utter Victory.
The end of the Independent Group for Change, and farewell to ‘Parliament’s new tribe’
Having misjudged their message, their methods, and their moment, it is astonishing the extent to which the self-styled moderates squandered their resources.
The impeachment of Trump is a gigantic own goal by the Democrats
Johnson’s opponents must avoid the error of supposing it is enough to demonstrate, at least to their own satisfaction, that he is a bad person.
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Please, Prime Minister, stop talking about “the people’s priorities”
Meanwhile Corbyn behaved like a grumpy adolescent.
Johnson – at a stroke, a bigger player in foreign affairs, because of his larger majority. But what does he want to do?
The scale of his domestic ambitions and the legacy of the Iraq War suggest that his ambitions will be limited – for the moment at least.
As of last week, the Tories are Britain’s working-class party
The Prime Minister’s victory is on the same scale as Thatcher’s, but of a different kind. The implications of that could be huge.
How Vox Pub foresaw the Tory victory in England, but failed to predict defeat in Scotland
In vino veritas: talking to voters in pubs usually works. We saw how four of these five contests could be expected to play out.
The non-reshuffle shuffle
Morgan is Culture Secretary from the Lords, Hart Welsh Secretary – and this holding operation presages a bigger reshuffle after Brexit at the end of January.
A good election for the pollsters, but most still under-estimated the Tories
The result will probably offer some respite to an industry which has previously come in for a lot of flak from certain quarters for misrepresenting the state of the race.
How the half a century-long Conservative civil war over Europe was won last week in a single day. By the Brexiteers.
One has to pinch oneself to remember that as recently as last July May was Prime Minister, Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequer and Gauke Lord Chancellor.