British support for Ukraine has so far been unwavering. But how long would it survive the return of Donald Trump?
Do not confuse the quietude on the part of Matthew Parker Street for anything more than the usual calm between election periods.
Since 2010, the Party has a truly terrible record of retaining its reformers – especially those capable of understanding and reshaping the structures of government.
The sad truth is that if the Confederation of British Industry did not exist, we would have to invent it.
Still less are civil servants paid to do so rather than getting on with the job – which taxpayers fund.
Rather than a charter of exciting new ways to invade your privacy, their report is more an attempt to respond to Dean Acheson’s claim that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role.
The friendliness and expertise of the IfG’s staff, and worthiness of its aims, should not obscure its desire to place the fate of ministers in the hands of mandarins.
The former Health Secretary, and newfound star of reality TV, seems oblivious to the air of bogusness which hangs over so many of his claims.
The Business Secretary demonstrated to the Federation of Small Businesses that he will be their true friend and champion.
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
He is a Gulliver tied down by Lilluputian ropes. The figures scampering about his mighty frame grow bolder – tweaking a cord here, tighening a knot there.
For Johnson to discuss decisions bilaterally with ministers on WhatsApp without telling anyone and regularly backtrack undermines his own office.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.