Alex Chalk has become Justice Secretary. Number 10 have also announced that Chloe Smith will take over for Michelle Donelan as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology during the latter’s maternity leave.
The next generation of Conservative MPs may be no less gifted. But there’s one thing they can’t provide: institutional memory.
Wallace is top again – with Cleverly, Badenoch, Braverman, Rees-Mogg and Mordaunt above 50 points. There’s a tentative air about this table, as the panel feels its way with the new regime.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.
The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.
The Electoral Commission had proposed a delay until the autumn. It does leave a number of practical challenges.
We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.
Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.
That means looking into, and addressing, the cultural and working practices which create and maintain significant barriers for women.