The decision involves children, parents, schools and doctors, and has implications for rights, mental health, responsibilities and culture – as well as the management of a restive parliamentary party.
He may have less than a year, as Parliament returns and his Party’s conference looms, to persuade voters of his case – which he has scarcely even begun to make.
Maybe the future isn’t Leavers v Remainers, or even Conservative v Labour. Perhaps its truth v post-truth – Rowling v Dorries. I’m with Rowling. You?
The Board has agreed to re-establish the Constitutional Review Committee to ensure we are continually looking for opportunities to cut bureaucracy and improve the way we campaign and grow our party.
His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
The fact remains that the broad thrust of climate policy enjoys strong support from voters. YouGov polling shows that ULEZ is a rare example of an unpopular environmental measure.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
CCHQ says no, others claim yes. Either way, that Goodwin might make her claim was foreseeable, and one needs little imagination to picture the consequence.
The UK still a country prioritises freedom. But its citizens are far more deferential to the state than their American cousins – and the language of freedom is far less ideological and far more personal.
It is younger home owners who are proportionately most exposed to the costs of higher mortgages in relation to their incomes and the value of their houses.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
If this is the case for Conservative MPs, it is all the more important for their leader. Rishi Sunak should walk through the lobbies today and back the Committee.
In his Parliament of Whores, PJ O’Rourke gave one section the stirring title “Our Government: What The F*** Do They Do All Day And Why Does It Cost So Goddamned Much Money?” But as my research confirmed in various ways, most voters do not see government primarily as an expensive nuisance.