Plus: The ludicrous Evan Harris. My broken mobile. The menace of TTIP. The smears of Yvette Cooper. And: why Polly Toynbee swiftly changed the subject.
Plus, we welcome a new Italian MEP to our group, as one of our former colleagues becomes President of Poland.
TTIP offers huge benefits on both sides of the Atlantic. We shouldn’t allow indecision and misinformation to derail it.
It gives free trade a bad name with the Left, causes delays in getting progress on market access, and leaves us unable to shape an agreement which suits us.
Conservatives should be very wary of the deal as a whole, reject part of it outright, and exclude our health service from it.