
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: This unbrushed, unkempt Prime Minister reckons he can beat the Nats
He attacked the SNP for wanting the poor, hard-pressed taxpayer “to pay for more and more and more”.
He attacked the SNP for wanting the poor, hard-pressed taxpayer “to pay for more and more and more”.
From Wellington to Johnson, this institution has managed to keep itself at the heart of Tory politics.
The former Glasgow MP is now, astonishingly, Governor of Punjab, while his son is getting ready to attempt the revival Scottish Labour.
If not for your efforts on the doorstep and the endless nights of telephone canvassing, we would not have defeated Corbyn’s Labour Party a year ago.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.
It’s speeches for Sunak, Patel and Raab; interviews in different formats for Gove, Hancock and others; while others still are relegated to panels…
The co-Party Chairman says next year’s local elections will definitely go ahead, and won’t give a figure for Party membership.
Using modern Germany as a stick with which to beat old-fashioned Britain is a grave mistake.
Even putting aside the EU dimension, there are very good arguments for having one in place.
Our Party is at its best when it is a broad church, not only on the political spectrum but when we have voices from all walks of life.
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.
Much of this book is true, and the author does not pretend fully to understand what is happening. And yet I think her pessimism is overdone.
Workers who are effectively modern slaves have been put into the position of having to choose either to work or starve during lockdown.
Dodds, replying for Labour, claimed Johnson’s motto is “The buck stops anywhere but here”.