“She’s the mermaid on the front of the Titanic,” one MP remarked. He would not say who he was supporting, but evidently not Mordaunt..
Some of the Tory tribe still drummed their desks in support of their chief: others stood in sombre silence having just assaulted him.
He is a Gulliver tied down by Lilluputian ropes. The figures scampering about his mighty frame grow bolder – tweaking a cord here, tighening a knot there.
A worrying picture is already emerging of parents being unable to get their children into their school of choice.
Having entered Parliament from business, I know first-hand that prosperity is not created by government.
Almost a fifth of respondents protested by either abstaining or writing in for Johnson.
Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.
In the run up to the White Paper on Levelling Up, our interview with the former Chancellor opens this week’s ConHome series on localism.
Against a post-pandemic background of shortages, prices rises and higher taxes, how much protest will there be over the growing size of the state?
The Director of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit on his four tests for new Government policies – and moving on from the confidence vote.