The sooner we deal with our Party’s past, however difficult, the easier it will be to drive out the hatred emerging on the Left today.
Even the near threat of such an outcome could outscale 16th September 1992 many times over in terms of setting political perceptions.
Just as they had with Joe Chamberlain before him, the Tory leadership wooed Lloyd George to fatally fracture the Liberal Party.
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The latter has never had the clout nor the resources required for it to do its ever-expanding task. It has had to play catch-up.
We are re-proving that ‘we learn from history that we do not learn from history’.
British politicians are negotiating as if it were 410 AD, and still the Roman province of Britannia, asking permission to leave instead of flourishing a mandate to do so.
The tendency of people in politics to think of everything through a political prism is mistaken. The star dust of sporting triumph does not rub off on politicians.
As we leave the EU there is never a better time for the UK to show the world that Global Britain promotes and protects the causes of those in need.
May’s appeal next week at Chequers will be founded in grinding detail, not Churchillian rhetoric. Key to agreement will be taking Ministers with her and springing no untoward surprises.
This unusual leader still evokes passions in his Party even decades after his surprise election victory.
If the establishment had really been as efficiently conspiratorial as it was supposed to be, there would have been no need for his amateurish plot.
There are honourable arguments for and against shipping the Parthenon marbles to Greece. His instinctive knee-jerk is not one of them.
We need more houses, not just to buy, but to rent – truly affordably, as well. This is a social justice issue.
The referendum transferred from MPs themselves the decision as to whether to remain in or leave the EU and – with it, to regain our freedom to make our own laws.