The Party’s internationalist-minded Left talks the rebellious talk, but is less ready to walk the walk.
Also: on the centenary of his assassination, Unionist MP and war hero gunned down by IRA gets memorial in Parlaiment.
Voters want the government to focus on reducing the cost of living, keeping a lid on the wage-price spiral, and, because of the war, national security.
It is trying to find ways to get away with violating its obligations. Not exactly in line with the image it attempts to paint of itself in the Brexit context.
Unless Ministers get more grown-up in their rhetoric, they are going to set expectations at a level they cannot and should not meet.
Also: the DUP can be forgiven for being sceptical that the Government will deliver on its Protocol promises.
it is almost impossible to disentangle any effect from the much larger shock resulting from pandemic and war.
This argument is often called upon when there is a requirement to act in order to safeguard an ‘essential interest’.
In what universe is “the peril which has emerged” not inherent to the structure of the deal he struck?
Last week’s confidence vote leaves the Government right about the Protocol’s operability but less capable of acting to improve it.
I have made clear that the scheme initiated by the Labour Government at the time for the so-called ‘on the runs’ has no legal basis.
This week, we sign the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an American state, with almost half of the 50 American states to follow.
The Foreign Secretary’s proposals for reforming the Protocol are extraordinary in their modesty. But the EU will never relinquish its advantage.
If the party really wants to honour its past, then it must face up to problems of the present.
The need to protect the Belfast Agreement is the most plausible argument as the Bill faces its second reading today.