Democracy is not about making choices, but decisions, and the two-party system was much better oriented towards presenting voters with the latter than a multiparty system more replete with the former.
The Tories might have an easier time delivering cuts to working-age benefits, but those don’t even rank in the top three spending areas pushing tax as a percentage of GDP endlessly upwards.
Her next exam question is whether or not she can build on the momentum of last week and find ways to keep winning the spotlight when it is no longer guaranteed by the political season.
Kemi Badenoch resisted the temptation to make wild and unrealistic promises, but we shall have to see how seriously voters take sensible proposals from a party polling below 20 per cent.
Badenoch does risk overstating the extent to which the Party has worked out the detail on things like withdrawing from the Convention. Fortunately, Labour’s initial counter-argument is moronic.
A sensible nuclear programme need not conflict with, for example, heavy exploitation of the North Sea. But Britain’s long-term prosperity and energy security rest also on getting a head start on tomorrow’s power sources.
The Government’s progressive critics will see a beastly litany of hurdles for people looking to settle here, and the rest will see the outline of a lanyardist paper tiger, a tough-sounding but ultimately bare-minimum effort to reconsecrate the basic idea of ILR.
She told GB News that some MPs “will leave” because she’s “saying that we need to live within our means” and “no more lavish spending”. Who are they supposed to be?
The most important question about any rebellion is whether it represents an attempt to pivot towards reality, or away from it. On the current evidence, the latter seems far more likely.
Our current system focuses exclusively on applying an abstract scheme of rights on a case-by-case basis without regard for the broader consequences. This is not sustainable.
His government will live in a sort of fantasia where, no matter how existentially bad the big picture, the day-to-day of politics remains locked in some happier year, when all that was asked of it was better communication, some fresh perspectives, and perhaps a task force or two.
On issues such as the Online Safety Act, which Farage deplores and of which she was a major architect in government, the two are miles apart. Having been so strong-willed on the subject as a minister, would Dorries be prepared to recant that position for a place in the Reform tent?
These people might give him sensible advice, but what use is it if it points to battles which, judging on past performance, he has not the stomach to fight?
The proposals reportedly under consideration at the Treasury is for an annual percentage levy on the sale value of a house – but all existing housing wealth would be grandfathered in.
The quarter of members who report themselves ‘Indifferent’ to the idea is a little surprising. The Argentine president is, as we see, not an un-radical template to which to commit: