
Help hard-working people and go for more growth. The economic policy and message that Johnson needs.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
The former Policy Unit head isn’t the institutional Treasury’s greatest fan, and it will watch this appointment closely.
These moves are like those of a boxer who throws his arms round his opponent in an attempt to save himself from a knock-out blow.
Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.
There were 44 Tory abstentions – which is in the same territory as last week’s vote on the same issue.
But it looks as though some 40 others abstained. That’s a warning shot across the Government’s bows on tax rises.
If the Spartans hadn’t held out against the pleas of our colleagues then Britain would have been trapped in a customs union with no way out.
If no good deal comes and No Deal happens, the option of a return to EU membership is no longer on the table.
That’s the biggest Tory revolt so far on a virus-related division, and enough potentially to defeat the Government in future.
Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.
The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.
The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak. So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team. Here is the result.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.