Are aspects of the campaign for trans another example of a development welcomed by some at the time, and ultimately denounced by nearly everyone?
His determination to promote more women may have a knock-on effect on the biddability of male Tory MPs.
How the Conservatives are winning and Labour losing the working class – a pattern that the latter’s leadership candidates are set to repeat.
His reluctance to do so is part of a bigger picture: a decision not to dance to the media’s tune.
If Downing Street doesn’t grip the campaign against Patel by allies of her Permanent Secretary and others, it may spiral out of control.
No, not you-know-who, but David Frost, Johnson’s Europe adviser. When was the last time a SpAd led for the Government with a major speech?
It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.
This site is opposed to subscription funding and a decriminalised licence fee. But both will be forced on the BBC if it doesn’t reform.
The new Chancellor has work to do if he is to fend off the wrath of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
“Javid has already seen one SpAd fired. The Prime Minister may push to dismiss at least two more…which he would resist. This one may not end well.”
Having “got Brexit done”, this is the team the Prime Minister wants beside him to push forward his domestic agenda.
Politicians get a kicking, sometimes deservedly, but if you want an example of committed public service, look no further, on this reshuffle day, than at this one.
We cheer the mission. But government needs more compromise, art, tact and accomodation than campaigning alone allows.
Cameron’s memoirs offer a hint of where the occupant of Number 11 may look to raise property taxes instead.
Of course the result is a bad one. But we encourage the party to co-govern in Northern Ireland, so can scarcely object if now does so too in the Irish Republic.