Jesse Norman called for “warm, engaged…and constructive leadership”. But like a good teacher, a good Prime Minister needs to be prepared to be disliked.
The Foreign Secretary’s proposals for reforming the Protocol are extraordinary in their modesty. But the EU will never relinquish its advantage.
The Speaker recognises that formal attire serves an important purposes, for legislator and official alike. If only his predecessors had done so.
Likewise, if a cruise ship wants proof of vaccination before you board, it should have the right to. Here’s why.
It may sound obvious, even trite, but it’s the only way out. The primary purpose of economic policy for the next five years should be to generate revenue.
We could, if lost time really is the objection to 2021’s exams going ahead, shorten the Easter holidays and pay teachers a bonus for extra work.
The fundamental premise of Trumpism, namely that globalisation is bad for ordinary people, is false.
Publishing the figures will underline that Ministers are striving to be balanced. Never mind how it looks, though: better statistics will lead to better decisions.
It seems highly unlikely that the action against Grimes will result in a prosecution, let alone a conviction. But that doesn’t make it OK.
His critics display the close-mindedness that they falsely suspect in him. Indeed, you won’t find a less partisan man.
Let’s have a no-holds-barred strategic review which asks how we can best defend our interests given the vertiginous acceleration of military technology.
These are the same elected representatives the whom we insisted should “step back and trust the professionals”.
Having correctly judged that there would be no immediate vaccine, it opted for a sustainable response.