The Prime Minister much preferred talking about a serious subject, the defence of Ukraine, indeed the defence of freedom.
“Because of the efforts we’ve made over the last two years, we can now live with it in a very different way.”
The Party Chairman responsible for fund-raising is playing for higher stakes than he may appreciate.
The Salisbury attack constituted a kind of education in how brutal and shameless Moscow is prepared to be when flouting national sovereignty.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.
He is still viable with the public if he is constantly compared to Starmer as the alternative.
Along with others, I have lost trust and confidence in the leadership of the EHRC to properly protect the rights of LGBT+ people.
“I give 100 per cent of my loyalty to the Prime Minister because I know he is focussed on issues that matter to people across the UK.”
The Government plans to scrap the legal requirement for people to self-isolate if they have the virus; a move that has huge implications.
These two institutions at the very centre of Government do not appear to be operating the way they should.
The Prime Minister’s manner was robust. His position is not yet robust, which means the Commons is more powerful.
They may very well decide that if the establishment wants Johnson gone so badly he must be doing something right.
Judging my his past behaviour, probably not. And with the Conservatives in disarray, he has no incentive to make a strong statement either way.
We must extract more domestic gas, stop importing more untaxed electricity – and turbo-charge new nuclear power.