Max Caller, the inspector who brought change to Tower Hamlets, has been sent in to the city. The Government could take control.
Duncan Smith names “five giants”: family breakdown, worklessness, serious personal debt, addiction and educational underachievement.
There is no evidence from the poll of polls that the Dominic Cummings affair speeded up what has been a steady Tory decline since mid-April.
There is much more to politics than an affordable state and competitive taxes. But both will be indispensible for survival, let alone prosperity, after we leave the EU.
Plus: Hammond’s blunder. Peers’ folly. Stephen Hawking is not, repeat not, controlled by MI5. And: my inner Mary Whitehouse meets Katie Hopkins’ slack vagina.
Only a constitutional referendum lock, safeguarded by the Queen, can protect us from the left-wing coalition that could take power in 2020.
Little wonder, then, that almost three-quarters of them are opposed to Theresa May seeking a snap election.
It is possible that the Party may end this new year in a weaker position than before the 2015 election if CCHQ doesn’t act quickly.
The list of at-risk MPs includes veterans, rising stars and even a shadow cabinet member.
Plus: Is President Trump a good thing or a bad thing? And how do you rate the performance of each Cabinet minister?
The balance of the argument is against one as matters stand. But May will have no alternative but to go to the country if Parliament frustrates Brexit or her negotiation.
The second piece in our pre-Budget series on how to eliminate the structural deficit.