Is competence dead? It is still there but is now a second-tier attribute to ‘straight-talking’ and ‘strength’.
Conducted before the D-Day debacle, these crucial 2019 Conservative voters still had good things to say about Rishi Sunak – and were unimpressed by Sir Keir Starmer.
Our acting editor joins Sienna Rogers of The House magazine to pick over last night’s broadcast un-spectacular.
If public perceptions as to who would make the better prime minister do significantly shift, it is also likely that we would see reciprocal shifts in headline vote intention.
If JSO’s house style prevents us engaging with the meaningful questions of how we best combat change without a decline in living standards, then their main contribution to the debate is lowering the quality.
He tells us about his views on Hong Kong, and how he balances his “absolute” loyalty to both the church and Government over re-openings for worship.
And: the Conservatives hide their own manifesto away. The LibDems bungle theirs – which Prince Andrew wrecks anyway. Plus: election night line-ups.
He wants to debate Johnson in the first two weeks of the contest. “Anytime, anywhere, on live TV.”
If we are to win back voters flirting with the Brexit Party, the Party must use this contest to demonstrate its ironclad commitment to leaving in October.
It would be a good match. Former Remainer v the former Chair of Vote Leave. No gender war element, either. How about it, Downing Street?
If anything, it’s traditional to reject them.
The issue must be addressed, and it will be. Opposition wrecking efforts are the wrong way to go about it.
With successive scandals, lawsuits, looming bankruptcy, terrorism investigations and breaches of charity law, the society has become a byword of iniquity from Christ Church to Somerville. If serious reform is delayed, the future for the Oxford Union looks bleak.