“It is a shame” that Soubry, Wollaston and Allen left the Party, Rees-Mogg says. Plus: May should sack Rudd and friends if they vote for Cooper-Letwin.
There’s no guarantee that it would return a Commons supportive of any deal that May might put before it.
The new group’s platform is not very inspiring. But its biggest problem is it they won’t be very different from the Conservatives’.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
She hopes to move quickly while Labour is splitting, get a quick gloss on the backstop, square the ERG with a hint of Malthouse later – and, hey presto, the deal will be done.
One thinks of the need for such as a measure as justice-related and security-related. But it would also send a powerful signal.
Mordaunt, Rudd and Hancock offer three examples in today’s papers of how British politics work now.
Javid is right to bury the “tens of thousands” target – but he needs to set out a clear pathway to lower migration.
A tweet from Greg Hands gets to the heart of the matter in a single sentence.
The biggest defeat in modern times and the largest Tory rebellion won’t stop her trying to resurrect her deal.
If you appoint Duncan Smith to the post she now holds, as Cameron did in 2010, it follows that you must fund his plan fully.