Unthinking the thinkable

How the far left uses a feedback loop to shut down people in the short term – and ideas in the long.

Mercer says he opposes Chequers because his voters do – and that May can’t lead the Conservatives into the next election

A central theme of the author and former army officer is: “I can’t over-exaggerate how different London is to the rest of the country.”

WATCH: Umunna – Labour now is institutionally racist

“It’s very painful for me to say that…the failure to deal with the racism that is anti-semitism is particular and clearly is a problem.”

The Conservative Brexit choice. Seek to park the UK in the EEA under a new Tory leader. Or press on.

If Tory MPs think that No Deal would collapse Brexit altogether, or that it would be unmanageable next March, they need a Plan B. But we stress: if.

WATCH: Wallace – “Labour still refuses to properly confront” its antisemitism problem

Our Executive Editor notes that while Opposition MPs continue to criticise the failings of their Party, they still haven’t actually done anything about it.

This is no time for MPs to vote themselves an early holiday

The Government is in crisis. MPs need to ponder deeply should be done for the best. That means not quitting Westminster this week.

Labour’s red-on-red infighting over Brexit is intensifying

This week was meant to be all about Tory rebellions and blue-on-blue conflict. Instead, the Opposition’s civil war has intensified.

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It may be useful to ask how the Environment Secretary would handle problems confronting other Cabinet Ministers. Consider the case of knife and gun crime.

Labour ‘moderates’ have fled the field, leaving Momentum and Unite to fight over who runs the Opposition

Like the Model T Ford, only somewhat less innovative, the Labour Party is now offering any kind of Left you want, as long as it’s Hard.

Iain Dale: The language used by both sides in the Brexit debate is hardening and coarsening

Plus: Soubry may quit the Tories, which I would regret. And: Why Labour’s silence on 100 years of votes for working class men?

Henry Hill: Wales’ Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition raises tuition fees

Also: Sturgeon follows May to offer ‘relaunch’ of government; separatist MPs join Soubry’s Continuity Remain caucus.

Tory MPs, the Repeal Bill, high motives for backing it, and a lower one too: self-preservation

They will want to ask themselves if they really want to spurn last year’s referendum result and the Party’s manifesto commitment.

Christopher Howarth: Osborne, Umunna and the CBI are offering a bridge to nowhere, not a bridging agreement

Having attacked EEA membership as a bad deal during the referendum, they now pretend it is a good idea in the hope of preventing Brexit.

Moggmentum gathers pace

Sometimes a politician becomes a beloved public figure – it’s happening to one Conservative MP right now.

Interview: The double-hatted Suella Fernandes – both a member of the Government and a pro-Leave group leader

She points to the opportunities to imitate New Zealand agriculture, and to crack down on big businesses which evade tax.