This vote must be chalked up as a convincing win for Sunak – and a sign that Johnson and Truss have less support among their colleagues than one might have thought.
This is a Review that is as interested in not upsetting Washington as it is Beijing. Labelling China a ‘challenge’ rather than a ‘threat’ mirrors the language of the Biden administration.
For whatever reason, he may be morphing into the politician I hoped he would become – the moderate man whose patience is exhausted.
James Cleverly should instead meet the Uyghur activists protesting outside his office today, and leave Erkin Tuniyaz out in the cold.
Recent governments have strained to take ever-larger numbers out of income tax whilst maintaining a large welfare state. The problem is whether this is sustainable.
Some will take the view that someone’s tax bill is their own private business. This is hard to maintain when the person concerned is Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The billionaires get the significance of Space – and regard their activities as some eccentric self-indulgence is to fail to grasp what they are really up to.
The former Conservative leader declares that “the Iranian nuclear deal is a bad deal. They have got everything out of it they wanted.”
The two easiest routes to boosting prosperity are by increasing immigration and planning reform. This is a reality few newfound enthusiasts for growth are willing to face.
The former Conservative leader says the policy “sounds like it could have come from Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister.”
A lower tax burden will be impossible without less supply of government. And for there to be less supply, there must first be less demand.
If we cannot end our national stagnation, whatever term the Prime Minister uses to describe Beijing will be irrelevant.
Under this scheme, the ’22 Executive would change the rules, Truss would go – and a high threshold would be set to ensure only a single nomination.
Every leader fails on one or more of my tests. However, her special achievement is to have flunked all of them in the space of a few weeks.
There is strong Conservative support for a robust safety net to save the most vulnerable from destitution.