The Liberal Democrats revive – but how likely are they to win many seats in 2020?
There are three main national obstacles to them winning back those they lost to the Conservatives in 2015.
The industrial strategy has a welcome focus on education. But will it live up to its claim of modernity?
There is still some way to go before we can be sure this is a truly new approach, and not a return to what has been tried before.
Philp should take the judges out of his strike law
Otherwise he risks leaving future governments even more at the mercy of the courts than they are at present.
The canting, self-righteous, liberal enemies of Trump who shouted “liar” at him – and failed
His critics have fallen for the Fact-Checking Fallacy: the illusion that in politics or journalism, accurate facts are all that matter.
Mrs May goes to Washington
She waited for a phone call when Trump won his election. And she watched as he puffed Farage. But he seems to have decided that he needs her.
May’s tremendous task – to tame Trump
The new President’s one big plus for Britain is that he is a Brexit enthuasiast. In this sense, his White House arrival is her lucky break. Since she’s got it, she must grab it.
Enough of the faux shock at the new US ambassador to the UK
Woody Johnson is rich and an ally of the President. So what? So were his predecessors.
Why May’s say-so on a Scottish independence referendum matters
Yes, the Government is unlikely to block outright an SNP demand for a rematch. But that’s not the only card in her hand.
Iain Dale: I find Washington in shock as I arrive for the new President’s inauguration
But I meet new friends from Alabama who tell me that everything’s going to be beautiful.
Why do we keep mentioning the war?
Our folk memory of World War Two is based as much in cinematic fiction as in real history. But that’s pretty hard to explain to our European neighbours.
Stoke-on-Trent Central – and why there is no electoral basis for abandoning Labour seats to UKIP
There are very few constituencies in which UKIP is tucked in behind Labour and the Tories a long way behind UKIP.
As May rules out the Single Market, Continuity Remain dream of reversing Article 50
Rather than accept reality, some are desperately seeking any chance to stay in the EU.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Lady Bracknell commands the House
But Corbyn at least managed to start better than he would have done a year ago.
Maggie May
The logic of her view that no deal is better than a bad one suggests that, like Thatcher at Fontainebleau, she is prepared to walk away if necessary.
May makes absolutely, blindingly clear what Brexit means – and it’s impossible for her opponents to deny
Out of the Single Market. Out, in effect, of the Customs Union. A Parliamentary vote – but on May’s terms, not Farron’s.