Also: Sargeant’s son to contest his seat at Welsh by-election; and Labour may use direct rule to align Northern Irieland with the mainland on abortion and gay marriage.
Their aggressive campaign against the scandal-mired First Minister is helping to keep one of Labour’s most senior elected figures off the national chessboard.
Also: DUP gear up for enhanced role whilst working on border compromise; and Holyrood committee shows its teeth and plunges SNP policy into chaos.
Most of the powers involved in ordering the Single Market are technical and trivial-seeming, but supporters of Section 11 of the Withdrawal Bill see danger ahead.
The Conservatives’ best chance of a majority is by winning over working class voters – who overwhelmingly and strongly oppose this daft policy.
The upper house “is strongest when it’s people and peers against the House of Commons, which it wouldn’t be in this case.”
If the Northern Irish Office is manifestly unwilling to move towards direct rule, it has no leverage against Ulster’s recalcitrant legislators.
His toothless policy towards the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein has created an unsustainable democratic vacuum in Northern Ireland.
The MP argues Westminster is viewed as an example to follow in many other countries.
If part of the country can walk out on its responsibilities to the rest at any time, fundamental functions of the Union will cease to operate.
By raising the possibility that EU law could retain its power after March 2019, the Prime Minister risks inflaming the concerns of Leavers.
The Spanish Prime Minister’s tin-eared reaction to police violence served to heighten, not dampen down, tensions.
Also: DUP dig in their heels in Stormont dispute; and Scottish Labour leadership challenger credits Corbyn with party’s revival.
Two cheers for a measure that, though mostly about managing, dividing and taming popular opinion, remains a reforming landmark.
We backed Brexit to make those in power more accountable. The House of Commons must not be ignored as if it were a mere debating society.