Our deputy editor talks to Newsnight about the challenge posed by Robert Jenrick and other rebels to Rishi Sunak: that to date, trying to thread the needle of creating an effective policy without re-assessing our legal commitments has not worked.
Our deputy editor tells Newsnight that the controversy about housing illegal entrants in hotels will continue until the Government bites the bullet and builds a proper asylum estate.
“He’s quitting as much on his own terms as he can, given the essentially zero political wriggle-room he had left.”
Laws such as the Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act predate instant messaging and the blurring of the lines between official and personal communication.
Labour like to say we are the only major economy whose GDP has not recovered to prepandemic levels. But looking at GDP at constant prices in national currency the UK economy in 2022, according to the IMF, was one per cent bigger than in 2019.
Our party contains multitudes – and should embrace conservatives from across the ideological spectrum.
The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.
As one side becomes more sensitive to perceived breaches of neutrality, the other becomes less willing or able to accept when it has erred.
Both sides must recognise that the Corporation as a whole can be performing well whilst its political coverage alienates Conservatives.
If police officers are shouting at people with loudhailers and disbanding picnickers in local parks, then, good.
The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.
It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.
The relative downsizing of election news is likely to freeze the current campaign in aspic. That ought to help the party which leads in the polls.
The proposed Australian trade deal risks bankrupting our farmers. The competition is unfair, their standards lower – and our consumer gain minimal.