With Britain’s credibility in Kyiv unparalleled, we are best-placed to raise the question of how this war might end, with an eye to Russia’s stability and re-integration into the international system.
Careless talk costs credibility – a point that politicians who like musing aloud about undesirable outcomes should bear in mind.
Are we in recession? Of course not. The ONS has in fact just uprated its growth forecast, and the IMF now admits that Kwarteng’s reforms will boost growth.
A spirited defence of cutting taxes is a welcome change from a Conservative Prime Minister.
Since Barack Obama said that Britain would be “back of the queue” for a trade deal after Brexit, we have had two more Presidents and three more Prime Ministers. Yet the deal has not become any more likely
This is a war between two visions of human life. And ours is the better.
We shouldn’t assume that Tory common sense protects British conservatism. The fact is that rightwing PC — though in a different form to the US version — is making in-roads in this country too.
Unless Ministers get more grown-up in their rhetoric, they are going to set expectations at a level they cannot and should not meet.
The Foreign Secretary’s proposals for reforming the Protocol are extraordinary in their modesty. But the EU will never relinquish its advantage.
The Environment Secretary, in charge of the seven-year transition from the Common Agricultural Policy, prefers to do good by stealth.
The response of Prince William and others to Putin’s invasion has been subject to disingenuous purity tests.
They have the power to change the law if the old laws get in their way. They can command huge resources of people, money and message.
Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.
I was surprised to see Daniel Hannan argue that the Government is failing to distance itself from the EU.