Interview: John Redwood outlines a doctrine of coercive loyalty
According to the senior backbencher, Tory rebels are pushing the Government towards popular policies on migration, energy and sovereignty.
Henry Hill: Ian Paisley claims to have been ‘forced out’ as First Minister by the DUP
Also: Police find ‘no evidence of criminality’ in Unite’s Falkirk emails; Ian S Smart sees Tory chance in SNP weakness; and Wales could lose £7m to English universities.
UKIP Week: Bitter divisions in Lincolnshire
UKIP councillors in Lincolnshire don’t seem interested in policy but personal recriminations
Positive IMF forecasts are nice, but their economists do keep being proved wrong
Last Spring they were saying Ed Balls was right – can we rely on their accuracy now?
Boris needs to get a move on
He should try to have a return to the Commons wrapped up by next autumn’s Party Conference.
Garvan Walshe: Death of an idealist in Kabul
Alexandros Petersen was killed in Friday’s attack on the Taverne du Liban restaurant.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP: Our visit to victims of the humanitarian disaster in Syria
Well over one 150,000 people have been killed, at least nine million people are internally displaced and two and a half million refugees.
How will UKIP perform in the Council Elections?
It seems quite likely that UKIP will win the Euro Elections yet not take control of a single one of the councils holding elections the same day.
Charlotte Leslie MP: The importance of being a fairy godmother
For MPs, legislating at Westminster and working in constituencies are complementary roles.
Greg Hands MP: It’s three years today of Labour’s deficit-denying, Goodwin-knighting, zero-credibility Shadow Chancellor
Ed Balls is a man trapped by his past. And Ed Miliband is too weak to stand up to him.
What did Michael Fallon do in a past life to deserve Minister for Portsmouth?
He laudably steps up each time the Government calls on him – being Minister for Portsmouth is a funny way to thank him.
Stanley Johnson: If the French built HS2, they’d pay proper compensation. So why can’t we?
And does it really have to come into Euston at all?
We need to put the entire benefits system up for review
The founding tenets of the Welfare State have been overcome by change and cheap politics. It’s time for another Beveridge Report.
Lord Dobbs: The Lords must not kill off the EU referendum bill
It would be utterly reckless for the Labour and LibDem peers to prevent the people having a say.
Why Downing Street believes it won the War of Jenkin’s Letter
It thinks that there has been a backlash against the missive – especially from members of the 2010 intake and Tory MPs in marginal seats.