Those who voted against same-sex marriage were more likely to support Leadsom than those who voted for the legislation, whilst the opposite was true for Gove.
Charismatic, Oxbridge-educated, hailed as the man of destiny – is it too late for Johnson to learn from Portillo’s failure?
And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.
The Conservative Party will never be able to command an overall majority again if it doesn’t stop treating its grassroots like dirt.
The former fear that it will revive what they believe are business-unfriendly ideas about foreign takeovers and workers on boards.
John Major secured more votes than any other Prime Minister in unpromising circumstances – but ‘stretching the elastic of democracy’ would cost the Party dearly.
Maastricht made it clear that the EU was leaving the UK, preferring to become a superstate. We could never agree to such a project.
The ethical teachings of FH Bradley are the ideal starting point for rediscovering the social dimension of Conservatism.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
If you’re pro-Leave, don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by yesterday’s emphatic vote for Article 50.
After a long chill, relations between the sister parties are thawing.
Plus: John Rees-Evans’s bizarrre views. May’s flourishing line in jokes. Trump’s chances of winning. And: let Article 50 be put to a vote in Parliament and let’s get on with it.
It has been where there is an air of panic and chaos, with a government forced to bow its knee to the markets, that there is real political damage.
The widespread presumption that everything is a matter for negotiation is damaging nonsense. Once we identify the issues which we can decide, Ministers can start taking decisions.
They will be strange, edgy experiences: I can hardly wait.