Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time
Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.
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The Government publishes its plan to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act
Ministers are indeed attempting to restore the power to call an election to the Prime Minister, using the Royal Prerogative – and shield it from the courts.
The Moggcast: Coming out of “an extraordinarily deep slump” is “not the time when you want to slap the economy down with higher taxes”
Plus: Our interviewee suggests that if a Brexit deal doesn’t come soon, MPs may have to sit on Christmas Day. Is he any good at singing?
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty One, Tuesday 1st December 2020
Labour faces “a battle between their natural authoritarian instincts and their political opportunism”
But “the majority of the Conservative Party will vote for the restrictions and the tiers”, says our interviewee. Plus: Is he any good at singing?
The Moggcast: Episode Fifty, Tuesday 17th November 2020
Cummings has a “willingness to shake things up and sometimes things get too shaken”. Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism. Plus: Why he voted for Theresa May’s third WA.
The Moggcast: Episode Forty Nine, Tuesday 3rd November 2020
“I think you’ve got to be much more patient”, says Rees-Mogg. “There’s always a demand to know things very quickly – but we won’t know things very quickly.”
“The job of the Prime Minister is to listen to people he thinks are very well informed”, he adds. “I think the people who have been advising him have been doing so with the greatest integrity and knowledge.”
Our Cabinet League Table: Sunak is still top, and Johnson is back in positive territory – just
All in all, it’s much of a muchness – with Douglas Ross down by about 25 points, now that his Party Conference coverage has faded.
All of ConservativeHome’s 2020 fringe event videos in one place
Six members of Cabinet, more than 70 speakers, in 18 events, over three days, makes for over 22 hours of top-flight political insight and debate.
The Moggcast LIVE: Episode Forty Eight, Wednesday 7th October 2020
Jacob Rees-Mogg answers listeners’ questions in a special live episode. Why MPs “owe it to our constituents” for the House of Commons to be sitting. And will he release a 2021 Mogg calendar?
Jacob Rees-Mogg joins our conference fringe line-up – register now for the Moggcast LIVE
The Leader of the House will be interviewed by Paul Goodman in front of a live audience.
The Moggcast: Episode Forty Seven, Tuesday 15th September 2020
“With all these things, arguments evolve,” says our interviewee, as he discusses No Deal, Covid marshals and the possibility of a second lockdown.
Johnson plummets into the bottom third of our Cabinet League table
Last month, he was sixth from top. Now, he is eighth from bottom. Only six Ministers have a satisfaction rating of more than half.
Iain Dale: My end of term report on the Cabinet. Part Two.
By the way, it is a travesty that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Leader of the House aren’t full members.
Profile: York – and its potential role as Parliament’s new home, a Johnson joke which could become serious
Hoyle and Fowler are deeply opposed to the move, but Labour voters in the North of England like the sound of it.
The Moggcast: Episode Forty Six, Tuesday 14th July 2020
Rees-Mogg on Lansley’s NHS reforms – “the people who are held to account” should “make the decisions.”
Our interviewee speaks to us about FDR’s new deal, the “extremely satisfactory” Withdrawal Agreement and his views on self-identification.