James Frayne: Cummings is right about voter backlash against a Brexit betrayal
Votes would come flooding back into UKIP and, perhaps more importantly, to independent candidates that campaign on the “You Lied” platform.
Henry Newman: The EU isn’t a conspiracy against democracy, but it does a pretty good job of looking like one
Some Italians hoped Brexit would make Brussels realise it had gone too far. Instead, the EU elite has doubled down, regardless of troublesome voters.
Rebecca Lowe: Women’s attitudes to the Conservatives – and vice-versa – are not what you may think
There are clearly questions about what’s happening in relation to voting, membership, and representation — and what the Party should or might want to do.
Iain Dale: Will Javid deliver?
Plus: Crunch point on Brexit. Farewell to Biteback. Bannon’s loose tongue and persistent loyalty. And: face to face with Jacqui Smith.
Henry Hill: New polls find no surge in support for Northern Ireland leaving the UK
Also: Davidson calls for ’emotion bonds’ of the Union to be strengthened; SNP face tough choices on independence ‘summer offensive’; and more.
Daniel Hannan: Trade liberalisation, even more than trade deals, is the true prize to pursue
As the miracles of Hong Kong and Singapore demonstrate, cheaper imports, rather than easier exports, are the big win. The trick is persuading voters to agree.
Robert Halfon: We need a workers’ party that’s like a modern trade union – not a trivial Nando’s scheme.
We must change our organisation, making it more democratic, accessible for the lower paid and a place in which the most disadvantaged can feel at home.
James Frayne: Onward, the new think-tank, is rightly focused on what matters to provincial Britain
It would be easy, but mistaken, to take the path of least resistance and simply re-enact the dated Cameron ‘modernising’ agenda.
Nicky Morgan: As Onward launches today, Number Ten needs to give us all something to hope for
The Government should consider setting up a domestic policy Cabinet sub-committee to help alleviate the Brexit bandwidth problem.
Iain Dale: Gammon if you think you’re hard enough. The patronising Remainers who’ve lost but can’t move on.
Plus: Boles was right (first time round) on Gaza. The Dambusters raid anniversary. A Tory poll lead. Plus: a man and a woman will marry in Windsor on Saturday.
Henry Hill: May should not fall for the old ‘fragile Union’ con on Northern Ireland
Some remainers will not give up on the idea that the UK is about to fall apart, but the latest evidence of that from Ulster is threadbare at best.
Garvan Walshe: Gaza. Israel leaps into Hamas’s trap.
The use of live ammunition is the result of decisions either made or approved by the defence minister.
Chris Grayling: The solution for Britain’s railways is partnership, not nationalisation
It’s time that we returned to the days when the train drivers, the engineers, the signallers, the guards and the planners all worked as one single team.
Alex Morton: Are you angry with the Lords? If so, don’t threaten to abolish or elect it. Here’s a better reform.
It should be able to amend proposed legislation only once – or propose laws itself once, with the Commons only needing to vote against these to block them.
James Frayne: The most effective case against nationalisation is the one that neither MPs nor businesses want to use
The injection of the truth that it would mean politicians in charge of services is enough to make most people see sense.