He says that now May is Prime Minister, Ukip ‘may well get peerages’
Plus: Osborne – terrible at predictions but brilliant at quizzes. The Brexiteers sweep the Select Committee board. And: all the very best to Nick Boles.
It’s hard to imagine Conservative MEPs behaving the same way – Charles Tannock, for example, clocking, say, Geoffrey Van Orden.
I quiz David Davis. I speak for freedom. And: I will not back down over our book about Hillsborough by Norman Bettison.
The new leader’s speech was a missed opportunity. And the People’s Army is in danger of complacency.
They might yet abolish the NEC in order to get their way.
Hammond’s leads by a whisker.
It’s letting Labour off the hook and exposing itself to Conservative counter-attack. Is SNP-style phalanx discipline essential to nationalist success?
Also: Davies defends Johnson; Fox’s bid to quit EU customs union heightens Irish border concerns; Brexit fails to boost Scottish separatism; and more.
In Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow we found little demand for another referendum. Plus: which Game of Thrones characters would our political leaders be?
Yet another faction fight is being won by a combination of rulebook brutality and clumsy errors.
He represents a proudly provincial conservatism, in which the condition of the striving classes, and of the industries on which they depend, matter a hundred times more than the City of London.
Her camp wants to move on from the subject. Quite right. But she will find it hard to do so until she has put doubts about her commitment to rest.
With the departure of their leader, and the Leave victory achieved, the “People’s Army” is turning its eyes to new voters and new messages.
UKIP served an important purpose – but now it’s time for grown-up government.