The Defence Secretary said “the real battle for defence” will come in the Comprehensive Spending Review in 2024-25, and “I’m not sure I’ll be here in two years”.
With the news that Sue Gray has resigned from the civil service and has been offered the job of Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, we present Andrew Gimson’s profile of her from 2017.
The Prime Minister also pointed out that his opponent is a lawyer, and told the House “there is nothing compassionate about tolerating illegal migration”.
A day out with the new Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, former miner, Labour councillor and admirer of Benn, Scargill and Skinner.
If Sunak reaches a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol, he will need it endorsed by DUP politicians with whom he has almost nothing in common.
No member of the ERG rose to do the Leader of the Opposition’s dirty work for him by plunging a dagger between the PM’s shoulder blades.
We are absurdly reluctant to talk about the policies needed to encourage the birth of more children.
The Ukrainian President transformed the atmosphere at Westminster, uniting past British heroes with the present heroes fighting to evict his country’s invaders.
Positive ideas of empire which in recent decades almost no one dared to express are emerging once more into public discourse.
The Scottish Secretary, understated in his public utterances, “often makes the wittiest interjections in Cabinet discussions”.
Or has PMQs become, like those wrestling bouts shown on the telly, a bit of a put-up job?
The friendliness and expertise of the IfG’s staff, and worthiness of its aims, should not obscure its desire to place the fate of ministers in the hands of mandarins.
But Sunak too wished to show the world he is not as other men, and in particular that today’s controversies occurred when Johnson was PM.