“All he really wants to do is get two years clocked up of his own premiership,” adds the Labour Leader.
After Brexit and Covid, five Prime Ministers and a cost-of-living crisis, a war in Ukraine and a war in Gaza, the Labour leader wishes to appeal to a weary electorate with a vision of tedium.
The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
This history of the Labour Party brings out its religious origins, and its role in filling the gap left by the decline of the churches.
The Labour leader said the “shrug of the shoulder” of voters was what “keeps me up at night”, and that his party had changed from being one “in thrall to gesture politics” under Jeremy Corbyn.
Farage is 59 – a rubbery, ebullient 59, but 59 nonetheless. Does he really fancy a decade’s prospective work to recast the right, with no certainty of elected office at the end of it?
If the new procurement policy means anything at all then it means ideological requirements could trump value for money.
Christmas can be a trying time – but this list of diversions, distractions, and silver linings should help even see the most dispirited activist through the holidays.
Day to day, it is much more congenial to be a “steady hand on the tiller”, even if this is a terrible quality in the captain of a ship going in the wrong direction.
The Prime Minister gives frequent, unobtrusive reminders that as a man of government he is highly impressive.
Though any of the 106 members of the One Nation Caucus do worry that declaring Rwanda a safe country in law is a push too far.
But Starmer, her new admirer, wore the complacent expression of a man who is 20 points ahead in the polls.
The key problem is stagnation. Margaret Thatcher’s reforms promoted mobility and opportunity. Now we are an economy which doesn’t change enough.
He will probably judge it better to keep a conservative spending message and dial down on the more radical green growth programme. Which would require her to make a painful U-turn.
The only means by which individuals should be able to avoid removal, is by demonstrating to Home Office officials, that they have entered the country legally, are under 18, or are medically unfit to fly.