The former Brexit Secretary, and leadership candidate, was talking to Camilla Tominey.
Trust the people is a good Conservative maxim. That should include trusting our members.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
Today’s parliamentary bout provides an excellent opportunity to review other vital perspectives on the legislation – and see which approach might be closest to the Prime Minister’s own.
The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
It is hard to see how he will manage to reconcile freedom of speech on the internet with the requirement to prevent legal but harmful content.
The Prime Minister was in ebullient form, full of hope for himself and his country, two entities he wishes never to see sundered.
And: surely Johnson wants to know who authorised the Nowzad instruction. Plus: go on – make it all about Brexit.
Johnson’s grand bargain to hike National Insurance to fund social care doesn’t look as if it will survive a leadership contest. But what would replace it?
The PM was unable to play his natural game of ridiculing the prigs, but did point out that his policies show every sign of succeeding.
The former Brexit Secretary quotes Leo Amery’s call to Chamberlain “You have sat there too long for all the good you have done, in the name of God go.”
Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.