The Employment Minister embodies two reasons why the Government is still afloat – its jobs creation record and under-reported Ministerial loyalty.
The Prime Minister lives to fight another day, and with a bit of help from Labour she could still get her deal through.
Bower writes him off as a loser, which is perhaps what he will end up being. But he did much better at the last general election than the commentariat expected.
But their deputies look stricken, while the defectors are rejuvenated.
The failure of the SDP by no means proves that a new movement of this kind is doomed to failure.
At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.
The Prime Minister assured Labour MPs that she will stand up for workers’ rights.
In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.
But neither she nor Lidington sounded as if they expect Brexit to end in disaster.
The Leader of the Opposition looked totally incapable of taking over.
He learned at Westminster Council and City Hall the politics of persuading people to agree.
They are curiously well-matched, for both of them prefer repetition to entertainment.