Don’t blame the A list
It may have produced Anna Soubry – but it also gave us a mixed cross-section of Tories, including Conor Burns, Esther McVey, Priti Patel and Liz Truss.
Blukip! Purple Momentum! But…the big problem with Tory entryism claims is that there’s no evidence that they’re true
When asked for it, the three MPs presented none. The reason is simple: this supposedly sinister entryist army does not exist.
The defectors are wrong. The Conservatives aren’t shifting to the right. They are mired in the mixed middle.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
So you’ve decided to set up a new party. Eight tips from UKIP’s experience.
The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The odd couple, May and Corbyn, pretend nothing has changed
But their deputies look stricken, while the defectors are rejuvenated.
Sad necessity. Three Conservative MPs resign the whip to sit alongside the Independent Group
We regret the Party being less broad a tent than it did this morning. But the position of these MPs had become impossible – and intolerable.
May’s off to Brussels and the game’s afoot
She hopes to move quickly while Labour is splitting, get a quick gloss on the backstop, square the ERG with a hint of Malthouse later – and, hey presto, the deal will be done.
If we were staying in the EU, would Honda still be leaving?
The answer seems likely to be yes. But there are still implications for the politics and economics of Brexit.
Why an updated treason law would help to boost community cohesion
One thinks of the need for such as a measure as justice-related and security-related. But it would also send a powerful signal.
Yes, our system favours the established parties. But it is not invulnerable to change. This could be the start of a breakthrough.
The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.
Conservative education policy is up for grabs
We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.
A cold climate for younger voters
Trashing last Friday’s event is doubtless fun for Conservative commentators, but not the right course at all for the Conservative Party.
Letwin’s wildcat executive would reduce ministers to marionettes
The whole plan involves maintaining a public-facing theatre of constitutional normalcy which will only further impede scrutiny and accountability.
Why did the Government craft its own defeat yesterday evening?
Perhaps we will find out today why Downing Street and the whips stuck with a motion that risked revolt by ERG members and second referendum backers alike.
May’s new Brexit hell. An alliance of hard and soft Brexiteers humiliates her. And any sense of progress is lost.
Her motion is defeated. Will the EU now abandon her, and egg on Letwin and his supporters to try to take formal control of the negotiation?