Is May pivoting to Canada?
Prepare for a Rule Britannia defence of Chequers at Party Conference…followed by its junking afterwards, as May is forced towards the most practicable alternative presently on offer.
May was ambushed because Merkel is too weak to lead the EU
Because the Chancellor’s coalition its riven by internal disputes, she has lost the authority to knock heads together on Brexit.
Our special survey. Only one in ten party members says that May should stick with Chequers.
Our panel has clearly given up almost altogether on the belief that it is practical or negotiable. Canada is the most popular option.
ConHome snap survey. What should May do now? Stick with Chequers? Go for Canada or Norway? Walk away? Junk Brexit?
Panel members can take our poll on how the Government should respond to yesterday’s EU summit statement in Austria.
Around the black cloud of Salzburg one can glimpse a silver lining
The EU’s rejection of Chequers gives May a chance to unite her party around Canada Plus Plus Plus – the only strategic Brexit option now open to her.
Another review won’t spare ministers the need to grasp the nettle of railway reform
Public anger over disruption, fare increases, and cancelled investment needs to be answered – or they will be tempted by Labour’s calls for nationalisation.
Khan is hanging around City Hall, waiting for the Labour leadership to turn up. London can do better.
I’ve already voted for Boff as the Conservative candidate. Sometimes I suspect that he knows even more about the capital than Peter Ackroyd.
The Government should rein in its miserable obsession with banning things
From Tony the Tiger to the sale of narwhal ivory, from plastic straws to eating dogs, the list of proposed bans grows weekly.
Immigration. Brexit simply means regaining control of our border policy. What we do with it then is up to us.
The UK should be willing to consider some flexibility in return for a trade deal – with Australia, with India, with Brazil and, yes, with the EU.
How to measure – and vanquish – poverty? A new answer to an old problem.
Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?
Cheqada
Or: how May could seek to get a deal through the Commons with the support of Soft and Hard Brexiteers alike.
Davidson says “I will not be a candidate.” Where does the Tory left look for a leadership contender?
One can conjure up the names of former Ministers, present Ministers and backbenchers. But only one of them presently sits at the Cabinet table.
Yesterday’s court defeat shows that the Electoral Commission is not fit for purpose
An effective umpire must command the confidence of both sides with regard to both its impartiality and its basic competence. At present, it doesn’t come close.
Welby’s next stop should be a small business conference
His TUC account of the harm that some businesses can do should be balanced by one of the good that more do – and by projecting a personal theology of wealth creation.
Why we get the wrong journalists
And why the liberal idea of journalism is so wrong.