How prepared are we for strict social distancing for the forseeable future, compulsory masks, closed leisure facilities – and a semi-functioning economy?
They included seven former Cabinet Ministers, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Chairman of the 1922 Executive Committee.
The Malthouse Amendment experience of different people coming together shows that unity is possible.
The Chequers Plan has been dead for some time, but Johnson has now read the funeral rites over it.
The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.
So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.
“It’s important for the Conservative Party to have someone who can speak the language of those who grew up in the digital world.”
Any reform must be sustainable both financially and politically. Our new report sets out how the Government could do it.
No way forward is without risk at this stage. But the least hazardous course is for the Party to step out soon with a new leader.
We are not a party within a party. We simply want to remind our fellow citizens that there are Conservative MPs who want to heal, not perpetuate, divisions.
The list includes the three who resigned from the Government this evening – and Green, one of the Prime Minister’s oldest allies.
That’s roughly half the Conservative Parliamentary Party, plus presumably some DUP MPs.
Only one of those selected this evening, that tabled in the name of Damian Green (“the Malthouse amendment”) does so.
As with Brexit, much of the Tory family finds itself pitted against the permanent State on how Britain aligns itself in the world.