His position as an adviser was more than decorative and he will be a loss. But as someone or other once put it, there is no alternative.
“I had to make that speech today…and if the Prime Minister can’t live with that, I have to respect her right to sack me.”
Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.
He says that while Birmingham itself and Solihull are particularly buoyant, large parts of the region feel that they have missed out on growth.
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Hosting the 2025 Northern Powerhouse EXPO would be bigger than the Olympics and the World Cup combined.
The EU referendum result marks a posthumous triumph over his old opponent, Edward Heath. Or does it?
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The people want a respectful, decent and honest referendum on the EU. Some in Government are failing to live up to that standard.
The challenge to a Party that holds not a single seat in Merseyside.
The Tory campaign in 1966 was not a success, but neither was it a complete failure. Heath’s warnings of economic troubles ahead were vindicated as early as July.
Rows, plots, leaks, secret deals, an inquiry, debates in Parliament and the loss of the Defence Secretary – all over “a company with a capitalisation of only £30 million”.
Opposed by Clarke and Heseltine, supported by Lilley and Portillo and backed by John Major as Prime Minister, it was the former Tory leader’s “proudest achievement”.
It is intended to create a means by which peers and MPs can seek to hold up leaving the EU.