And: he confirms that there will be a vote on the roadmap. Plus: on nightclub openings: “it may make more difference to your life than mine.”
The Leader of the House as next week’s Budget looms. And: he confirms that there will be a vote on the roadmap. Plus: on nightclub openings: “it may make more difference to your life than mine.”
Our interviewee once spent an hour at a meeting “discussing whether it was to be the committee or the provisional committee”.
Our interviewee once spent an hour at a meeting “discussing whether it was to be the committee or the provisional committee”.
He’s doing a “fantastic job”; timetables for ending lockdown are “not particularly realistic”; claims that Johnson relishes it are “ridiculous”.
Neil O’Brien is “to the Coronavirus as Bill Cash was to Brexit”.
He’s doing a “fantastic job”; timetables for ending lockdown are “not particularly realistic”; claims Johnson relishes it are “ridiculous”.
Labour raises the possible retrospective ratification of a Brexit deal. Rees-Mogg dismisses these “theoretical aspects”.
Our subject on how much time a Bill would be given now, how much time it might get – and whether it could be effected retrospectively.
“Parliament will not be an obstacle to ratification” of any exit deal, but the timing could pose constitutional difficulties.
Our interviewee on whether there will be an agreement with Brussels, the process of giving legal effect to it – and how quickly it could all be done.
Plus: Our interviewee suggests that if a Brexit deal doesn’t come soon, MPs may have to sit on Christmas Day. Is he any good at singing?
Labour faces “a battle between their natural authoritarian instincts and their political opportunism”
But “the majority of the Conservative Party will vote for the restrictions and the tiers”, says our interviewee. Plus: Is he any good at singing?
Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism.
Cummings has a “willingness to shake things up and sometimes things get too shaken”. Our interviewee on the “disgraceful” treatment of Symonds and Johnson’s longstanding Euroscepticism. Plus: Why he voted for Theresa May’s third WA.
Our interviewee on the lockdown, the NHS, free school meals – and Government assessments of the effects of policy on lives and livelihoods.
“I think you’ve got to be much more patient”, says Rees-Mogg. “There’s always a demand to know things very quickly – but we won’t know things very quickly.”
“The job of the Prime Minister is to listen to people he thinks are very well informed”, he adds. “I think the people who have been advising him have been doing so with the greatest integrity and knowledge.”