The news is not all bad for supporters of Leave. But a weakened Government needs third party support to deliver not so much a Soft or Hard Brexit as a clean one.
The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.
A ‘relative’ cap on the difference between standard variable tariffs and acquisition tariffs could untie Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ in the retail energy market.
May wants to break with the Thatcher tradition on controls, but there are risks from our old friend the law of unexpected consequences.
A letter to the Parliamentary Conservative Party reveals the ongoing work to fulfil Cameron’s “no MP left behind” promise.
If he wants to lead the Party and the country, the Chancellor is going to have to start seeing through these plans of his.
It reduces the risk of fraud and motivates parties to go out and persuade the electorate that voting matters.
Downing Street announces the ministerial changes resulting from Mark Harper’s resignation
All in all, a good day for the Centre-Left of the Tory Party, lots of change at the Whips Office…and what the lobbies are bound to see as the demotion of housing.
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