You, Dessie, are fighting fit with all that swimming in the Serpentine, bike riding and tennis. Soames and I admire you from the lounge bar.
There are suggestions that the Conservatives should seek to impose emergency controls – and dare Nick Clegg to break up the Coalition.
The Coalition must end now.
Cameron’s “vow” to Scotland, apparently at the expense of England, has caused deep unease.
He has long been one of the main voices in the Commons for a fairer deal for England. Now he is being heard more widely.
He would have a chance to campaign with his Party for a fair new deal for the whole UK – one decided not by the Westminster elites but by the people.
A senior source told me yesterday that “we are determined to put our best foot forward” – and compared the Carswell defection to a family bereavement.
The quarrels, resentments and grievances of the long years since 1990 could collapse “the oldest and most successful political party in the history of the world”.
Amid a flurry of ideological theories, we shouldn’t ignore the mundane realities of life.
Michael Gove, Philip Hammond, Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling.
Downing Street and the Whips should be using the ’22 as a sounding board rather more than appears to be the case.
The final appointees are now in post.
A week on from the day of sackings, who’s rocking the Prime Minister’s boat?
Where I am in sympathy and where I’m not with the protagonists in the Parris/Goodman debate.