Watch Hunt – now up to second in our final Cabinet League Table of 2017. Gove keeps the top spot.
Davidson and Mordaunt also score highly, whilst the Chancellor and Chief Whip both languish with negative scores.
Davidson and Mordaunt also score highly, whilst the Chancellor and Chief Whip both languish with negative scores.
He sweeps home with over half the vote against an expert enthusiast, a dedicated reformer – and a hero of a terror attack on Westminster.
Unlike Michael Fallon, whose presence in Cabinet the Prime Minister inherited, he was her own creation at the top, and one on which she relied.
She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”
Get Heywood and Robbins out; get Rees-Mogg and Duncan Smith in. There is still a chance to reverse last week’s defeat.
And after hitting a personal low last month, the Budget seems to have got the Chancellor (just) back into the membership’s good books.
The Brexit Secretary under fire at the DexEU Select Committee over the Government’s preparations and his consistency.
The Prime Minister’s stance on regulatory alignment is very hard indeed to square with his vision of a freewheeling Britain. Watch this space.
To the idea of leaving one part of the country behind, he replies: “No UK government would allow such a thing, let alone a Conservative and Unionist one.”
Add together the totals of those named who backed Brexit, and one reaches a total of nearly 60 per cent of the vote.
The Cabinet Ministers who backed Leave have gone along with a payment of some £50 billion. But they are digging in their heels over the role of the court – rightly.
If a £55 billion payment to the EU to start talks on trade has been agreed, it would be an outrage. There is no legal basis for such demands.
A sensible solution is achievable, but unnecessary brinksmanship and over-the-top rhetoric helps nobody.
Those who try to label and bully us will only make us stronger. And their attempts to do so say more about them than us.
The Prime Minister is not in a position to force policy about leaving the EU on her Cabinet colleagues – let alone the Brexit Secretary.