Johnson’s pro-Remain article demonstrates that he had come to truly believe in Leave
Before it was published, speculation ran amok. The BBC even claimed it made the stronger case. Its publication sinks a few myths.
That difficult imponderable debatable early general election
Matters might reach a point at which although Brexit is not blocked, orderly government becomes impossible.
Leave won the battle, but could lose the war
The post-referendum break-up of Vote Leave has left May and her ministers dangerously exposed to Continuity Remain.
When Thatcher wanted a weaker pound
David Willetts writes today that she favoured a strong currency. He is right. But there was a time when this wasn’t so, in which he had a walk-on part.
How close should May get to the Democratic Unionist Party?
The recent love-bombing campaign has got the Northern Irish Tories worried. The case for a deal is obvious, but so are the risks.
Brexit has caught the SNP between its members and the voters
The Nationalists can only hold their activists back and coalition together for so long, but with no surge in support a second independence referendum is a serious risk.
Why Britain must leave the Single Market
We cannot both be a member of it and control immigration properly. The referendum vote clearly plumped for the latter.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May treats Corbyn with genial condescension
The Prime Minister managed to imply that the men attacking her are ridiculous.
Did the referendum result really spark “a lasting rise in hate crime”?
Evidence suggests that there was a post-June 23rd spike. But a relationship with the referendum is contestable. And the normal trend soon reasserted itself.
Will Ireland’s borders become new British ones?
If so, we should pay any new costs.
Why the Right should make its peace with the State
It is not so much like a parent or a nanny as a brother. Not Big Brother, to be sure, but Little Brother – to be treated both with sibling rivalry and understated love.
How practicable would it be for the Commons to bring down Brexit?
The way the Article 50 process works does not aid attempts to halt Britain leaving.
A victory for justice. The Government will bring in “votes for life” for British citizens abroad
The 5.6 million of our fellow countrymen living overseas are a huge source of “soft power” – we should not be insulting them.
Hammond climbs, Rudd falls in our Cabinet League Table
The Chancellor’s position recovers despite his advocacy of the Single Market, whilst the Home Secretary falls from 11th to 23rd.
The not-so-bad Woolfe
It’s hard to imagine Conservative MEPs behaving the same way – Charles Tannock, for example, clocking, say, Geoffrey Van Orden.