He tells Sophy Ridge that after the election result he now feels there’s a chance that we may stay in the EU after all.
Plus: The decline of books. Morgan sees off the cult of Mogg. Why I won’t fly RyanAir. And: As I reach a significant birthday, I mull writing my autobiography…
Green, standing in for May, showed what an admirable caretaker leader he would make.
When I wrote on this website last year that we should not underestimate him, some ridiculed my argument. Now we have to educate a new generation about the dangers of Labour.
They will want to ask themselves if they really want to spurn last year’s referendum result and the Party’s manifesto commitment.
It was the brainchild of Rab Butler, set up to educate Tory members. 54,000 Conservative activists, agents and other students took courses.
Sometimes a politician becomes a beloved public figure – it’s happening to one Conservative MP right now.
If the Government really is considering treating the intimidation of politicians in the same way as hate crime, it ought to think again.
If the Conservatives spoke a progressive alliance, and meant it, they might be able to make some progress – and break down virulent anti-Toryism.
In response to our story, the group misled on what was said, who said it, when they said it, who they said it about, the reporting of it, and their views.
No more foreign funding of extremism. No more self-appointed “community” intermediaries. No more pretence that it’s all about cyberspace.
Guido Fawkes, Tom Newton-Dunn and the Evening Standard diary banded together to suggest that I was about to do a far, far better thing than I have ever done…
Far from being put off by his angry denunciations of the status quo, many saw it as a sign of a conviction politician who cared passionately.