Deliberately laying a ‘trail hunt’ using the scent of a real animal is asking for ‘accidents’. Time to ban the practice.
A number of ministers tipped for removal in the reshuffle were nowhere to be seen.
The numbers can be interpreted to suggest that the Bill may not clear Third Reading. But in our view that would be a misreading.
Johnson and Cummings’ previous assaults on the pre-Brexit order have been brilliantly conceived. This one may not be up to the same standard.
We’re now on Day Four of the controversy. This list began on Day Two and continues. One Minister has resigned from the Government.
“You can’t have one law for Downing Street and another law for everybody else,” he says.
We must strike a better balance so that where genuine disagreements arise, there are ways of resolving the situation through mediation and conciliation.
Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.
Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.
We also reproduce the full text of the letter itself.
The former award explodes the conspiracy theory that honours are being given only to backers of May’s deal.
This means not bullying people into voting for the Government, and not making grown men and women cry.
We risk losing our manifesto commitment, enabled by Brexit, to end live animal exports for fattening and slaughter, as well as important measures to end puppy and kitten smuggling.