Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: May’s war of attrition fails to raise Tory spirits
Gone are the days when the Prime Minister could sweep Corbyn aside as a ludicrous leftie.
Only one backbencher championed the problems of poor white children
Labour’s Richard Burden swam against the tide, not least from his Party’s front bench, in the Commons yesterday over the Race Disparity Audit.
May wisely prepares for No Deal – but treads a dangerous line on the ECJ and transition
By raising the possibility that EU law could retain its power after March 2019, the Prime Minister risks inflaming the concerns of Leavers.
The average age of Conservative Party members is 57 – four years older than Labour ones
Twenty four per cent of Bale’s Tory respondents were between 18 and 44, four points lower than the number of his Labour respondents of the same age.
Nearly nine in ten Party members say Britain must be able to sign trade deals during any Brexit deal implementation period.
Some people believe that it doesn’t matter if we stay in the EU de facto during such a time. This is not the view of ConHome’s respondents.
A reshuffle – and the case for sending Gove to the Treasury
The Government needs to make a decision on our post-Brexit economic model, reinvigorate the Conservatives in office – and win the votes of the next generation.
How not to topple a Conservative leader
The new rules require rebels to strike openly and in strength. Trying to get around them and do things the old-fashioned way… doesn’t work.
And now for 15 items of good news
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.
We must not let ‘presumed consent’ for organ donation become coercive
The idea that a citizen is the ultimate owner of their own bodies is seldom popular with today’s policymakers, so how will we guard it against tomorrow’s?
The hollow hall
Conservative Party Conference is not really a conference at all. The audience are a source of obedient applause, not trusted to speak or vote – and they know it.
That pitiable conference, this directionless party – and the tale of Johnson’s lion and May’s frog
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
Sketch: The day the Prime Minister looked as though she was going to die on stage
Even her warmest admirers will want her doctors to testify that she is fit enough to carry on without wrecking her health.
Why are May and capitalism worth conserving?
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
Amidst this flat, bewildered and underwhelming conference, Sir Winston Johnson offers a sense of direction
His sedulously-crafted speech wasn’t so much a crowd-pleaser as a big argument about Britain, Brexit – and the future.
Sketch: Javid wants the Nimbys to make way for new houses
And Conservative activists applaud a call to end “the fetishisation of the Green Belt”.