Housing First is essential but not sufficient – if there are as many non-UK nationals sleeping on the streets post-Covid as before.
Yesterday’s backbench reaction to his Commons statement suggests that most Tory MPs will back his proposals.
There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.
This rebellion had little in common with most others, but the names of many who oppose the Government now show a certain predictability.
There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.
Until Ministers have a clear direction in which to steer the ship of anti-poverty policy, they will be at the mercy of the passengers.
The “European Union is determined to stop” the UK controlling its own laws, powers and waters, he says.
Duncan Smith names “five giants”: family breakdown, worklessness, serious personal debt, addiction and educational underachievement.
The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.
If he is to take the necessary steps to get a Brexit deal (and I hope he does), he is going to have to defy those instincts on a second issue, too.
The Foreign Secretary helped to author this important legislation. If Britain is to continue to take a robust stance against Beijing, he must now use it,
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.