As well as having the ability to indulge his conscience provided by a second career, one expects that Labour’s newest MP is an NHS practioner first and a politician second.
Admirable as Singapore is, the more one learns about it, the harder one finds identifiable the copy-and-paste solutions British politicians are so often looking for.
The Chancellor has little headroom for another Budget. The Rwanda plan is a dud. A Nigel Farage return looms. How much worse can the Tory position become in the next six months?
Spoiler alert: the Rwanda policy will not stop the boats. I know this. You know this. One hopes Rishi Sunak knows this. The truth is that even if flights take off, the crossings will continue, and get worse under Labour, whether they cancel the scheme or not.
And what is Englishness, anyway?
This follows an investigation by the Times suggested he had misused campaign funds and asked for an elderly activist to handover money to “bad people” who had trapped him in a flat.
39.89 per cent of respondents suggested trying to change the Party leader would damage the Conservatives’ prospects at the general election. Only 14.73 per cent of respondents said trying to change the Party leader would help them.
An unhappy prospect, I’m sure we all agree. But an increasingly likely one. Blood will have blood.
He has also given up his roles on the 1922 committee and the Public Administration Committee, after he admitted sharing MPs’ personal phone numbers with someone on a dating app.
A lesson that Starmer should learn from Boris Johnson. However glorious your majority might look on the morning after the election, events can soon overcome it.
This government has a growing stench of death around it that even a sudden economic recovery would do little to shift.
We can be horrified by October 7th, loathe and fight antisemitism, and make clear our opposition to Iranian aggression. But we cannot aide and abet the mass death of civilians, especially after the killing of three of our own.
Aiming to defend only the 80 most marginal constituencies – and even snaffling a few from the Opposition – requires an optimistic reading of the polls. But it is easier than admitting to MPs they will soon be unemployed.
On one side, there are the Heseltines, the Peelites, the modernisers. The Tories, by contrast, are the romantic defenders of Church and King, who have yet to find a lost caue that isn’t worth fighting for. The party needs both.
Since privatisation, productivity is up 64 per cent, costs down 27 per cent, and bills £120 lower than they would otherwise have been. £190 billion has been invested since 1989.