Whatever one thinks of it, the Prison Minister’s pledge is part of no-nonsense approach that stresses making prisons drug-free, clean and ratless.
The Tories have been ahead only once since the summit, though the shift away from them has flattened out.
A consequence of the new Code of Conduct may be that he is referred to a panel – whether Number Ten wants it or not.
It cannot be eliminated altogether – at least without placing a steel curtain between Parliament and the people.
All concerned want to save face over the Johnson burqa row – May, Lewis and the man himself. Here’s a rough and ready way to correct its mishandling.
Any proceedings against him under the Party’s Code of Conduct threaten a cats-cradle of conflicts of interest and breaches of natural justice.
May’s muddled call for an apology from Johnson suggests that her approach to integration, cohesion and extremism is all at sea.
And eight out of ten want her replaced before the next election. These are absymal findings for Downing Street.
We register a dizzying fall of 18 per cent since the Chequers Cabinet meeting and the Brexit White Paper.
All our usual questions as Parliament’s recess begins in our first full survey since the Chequers Cabinet summit and the Brexit White Paper.
It’s real aim is to create the circumstances in which Brexit can be halted – without the all-but-impossible holding of a pre-March 29 plebiscite.
Much of the establishment now accepts that Islamist ideology must be named and challenged. But this view doesn’t seem to be held by the new DPP.