If Yvette Cooper, for example, pipped him to the post, she could do the Government damage on the migration issue.
We already have a tried and tested purdah rule to protect the ballot. It should be reintroduced in full.
There are internal tensions in the Government’s thinking.
Well done, Prime Minister, on making the question fairer. Now it’s time to reinstate the rule banning government campaign spending.
Now the Corporation must explain how the public came to be misled.
The Home Secretary’s intervention today doesn’t clear up very much at all.
The wide-ranging aims of the Bloomberg speech have dwindled to asking for limits on welfare for migrants. Now even that aim is in trouble.
The party’s two new spokesmen on economics and business are both unelected party officials.
I have signed up as a supporter – no doubt many ConservativeHome readers will do the same.
Applications are invited for the role.
Transparency should travel with taxpayer funding – if you don’t want to be accountable to the people, then don’t ask them to pay your bills.
The Mayor seeks a middle way between his two differing views on inequality. But how long will he stick with his solution?
Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t think defending the nation is ‘socially useful’. Just as with CND in the Cold War, our enemies will be cheering him on.
The Labour leadership candidate’s manifesto is a weird mix of the very vague and the very specific. And one idea looks familiar…
Stop collecting union dues from public sector payrolls – and open up tube driver jobs to external recruits.