Rees-Mogg is right: we cannot tell children to go back to school if parliamentarians continue to play truant.
Ministers’ efforts to get schools and businesses to re-open won’t be helped if MPs are visibly unwilling to return to Westminster.
While we should be looking to reduce tariffs, we should not be willing to do so at any price.
Take it from me that the US would walk away from talks if we tried to make the adoption of UK rules a precondition of any FTA.
The political logic of the Prime Minister’s choice is solid enough. But we’re past the stage where his Sunday statement can simply be taken on trust.
The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.
The first thing that would help would be for the Government to allow more time. And MPs could indicate to the control system they would like to intervene.
I just think that it is better to be cautious for a few weeks more, be clear that we are over it, and are not risking a second wave now, or during the winter.
Brady, Walker and Baker did their best to challenge the lockdown regulations, but Hancock preferred government by press conference.
Parliament’s role must be to encourage strategic thinking, raise reasonable questions and help the government avoid strategic errors.
If police officers are shouting at people with loudhailers and disbanding picnickers in local parks, then, good.
“From tomorrow…we will resume oral questions, statements and urgent questions virtually,” says Rees-Mogg.
Lindsay Hoyle kicks off proceedings today that are novel even in Parliament’s long history.
The author takes issue with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andrew Gimson – and say that MP should work from home if they can like everyone else.