The challenge for Sunak should not be underestimated. Outperforming Brown’s electoral tightening of 2010 may not even produce an outright majority. But politics is all about definition in the moment.
As one Cabinet Minister put it to me recently, the Treasury has never been interested in growth, just in collecting taxes.
The mainstream reaction to the idea of her comeback is incredulity. But she could easily become the Democrats’ best hope.
‘Let their frail elderly be unvisited in care homes. Let their weddings be postponed’, is the message of this Prime Minister.
Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.
Let’s say that Patel did, on occasion, shout – or lose her temper. Should that really be deemed unacceptable?
The NHS, the environment, childcare: the creative energies of Team Johnson must be poured into new policies for these.
I have reluctantly concluded that there needs to be greater regulation of the veracity of claims made by registered participants in political campaigns.
The Republicans made gains in the Senate, the Democrats won back the House – but that’s not enough to give them the stranglehold on Trump that they wanted.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.