Introducing the Moggcast
From this week, ConservativeHome will run fortnightly a Podcast featuring one or other of the editors in conversation with Jacob-Rees Mogg.
Remainers are ready to lord it over us
Fairly or unfairly, the pro-EU cause is already associated with elites. The arrival of the Withdrawal Bill in the Upper House will do nothing to diminish that impression.
A new grand coalition in Germany may be a boon for AfD
If both of the main parties remain locked together in an unpopular pact, it creates more space in which new challengers can grow.
Sir Nigel Farage, prince of self-indulgence, would like your attention
The man who rose to prominence through a ruthless pursuit of what worked has now descended into just saying whatever makes him feel important.
Higher and technical education. No young person left beHinds, er, behind.
Yes, we need a resource shift to technical education. But the loss of the Tory majority last June will make it very slow going.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn and May compensate for each other’s weakesses
The Labour leader showed no sign of wanting to get rid of the Prime Minister.
The worst-handled reshuffle in recent history – perhaps ever
Mind you, the substance of it was a lot better than the style (though that wasn’t hard). The lesson May will surely draw is not to have another big upheaval.
Reshuffle Live Blog Day Two: Full Government List
News, analysis and comment on the more junior appointments as we move into day two of May’s changes.
We ask nicely. But what is this woe-plagued reshuffle designed to achieve?
Amidst the wreckage this morning, there are a few points of light. But that cackling noise you hear from Kensington is George Osborne laughing his head off.
Live Blog. Day of the long boomerangs. Greening quits the Cabinet after Hunt resists moving. It’s a setback for May’s authority.
Damian Hinds is Education Secretary, Esther McVey goes to Work and Pensions, Matt Hancock takes over at Culture, Media and Sport.
Reshuffle Day. And Raab, Stewart, Rees-Mogg and Cleverly are our panel’s top choices for Cabinet promotion.
Cabinet Ministers were told yesterday that the shuffle will be “significant”, but that word covers a multitude of possibilities.
The row over Toby Young’s appointment offers a preview of politics in the social media age
When a generation that grew up online starts seeking public office, it won’t just be journalists who have a trail of unguarded comments that anyone can find.
The shuffle. May’s women gap.
It is hard to appoint more women to Cabinet when there are few senior women to promote. We count only four at Minister of State level.
Who gains from the reshuffle will matter much less than what it does. Here are five priorities – including housing as its focus.
Bringing on more women, rising stars and members of the 2015 intake – or even this year’s – will bring less gain than it could if such moves are not part of a policy plan.
There is scant evidence that May is about to u-turn on the Customs Union
The Prime Minister has made the freedom to strike trade deals, so important to key allies and the membership, a cornerstone of her strategy.