
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson beams like a schoolboy who has got his hands on an enormous cake
Like his most witty and nimble predecessor, Disraeli, Johnson finds that a majority is always better than the best repartee.
Like his most witty and nimble predecessor, Disraeli, Johnson finds that a majority is always better than the best repartee.
The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
Superior pundits fail to see the Prime Minister’s debt to Disraeli, and consider Johnson such a scoundrel they underestimate his chances of success.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
Look, too, at the track record of EU Member States. In 2020, Germany’s highest court ruled on subordinating EU law to German law. The EU took no action.
I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.
Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.
Disraeli’s impudence and audacity, demonstrated in this collection of his sayings, cast light on the present Prime Minister’s conduct.
Plus: In my view, there is no case at all to merit a decision to do anything other than keeping the lockdown, maybe with a few tweaks.
The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.
Ed West describes in his new book how the Left has established “a moral monopoly”. It describes the mentality of a Tory who will not be imprisoned in a system.
The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.
Many of those who self-identify as being on the Left also back key Conservative policies.