We can bring the withdrawal phase to a close. And can then get on with thinking about how to, and who should, negotiate the future relationship.
In general, it is right that schools should remove children that are a danger to others and who are preventing other children from learning.
In time, the ECR Group will increasingly be recognised as an important part of Cameron’s political legacy.
Plus: What anti-Muslim prejudice? I know of a Tory branch that moved their meeting from a pub in an attempt to make a Muslim member feel more comfortable.
Also: Ministers brace for fight with SNP over ‘Stronger Towns Fund’; Scottish Government backpedalling hard on welfare devolution; and more.
Quangos, councils, media outlets, even the police are apparently content to apply unequal restrictions to those of us whose views they dislike.
When we bend the rules in our favour, we cheapen our country. We become, in effect, the colonial power that the IRA accuse us of being.
If it is framed through the prism of tolerance and anti-bullying, most people support it. But there are still political pitfalls.
If her revised plan fails, the most likely outcomes are an even softer Brexit or a second referendum.
Whichever way the Prime Minister eventually goes, she will also continue to run the risk of splitting the Conservative Party.
There are some brilliant MPs, who go above and beyond. But the majority have hardly covered themselves in glory over Brexit.
The cohort of future Conservative leadership candidates would do well to start thinking about the structure of the Number 10 they want to build.
Plus: No, the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit wasn’t altogether a failure. And: Costa should get his old job back.
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The odds are stacking ever higher against the man who has dominated his country’s politics for years.