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.
He was the most formidable Chancellor of the Twentieth Century and a titan of the modern Conservative Party – voting for Sunak and endorsing his approach in last summer’s Tory leadership election.,
This Government is committed to championing the needs of those who have given so much, and will continue to build on the huge strides already taken to genuinely improve veterans’ care across the United Kingdom.
When push comes to shove, what will matter will be whether or not the arrivals stop – or at least that the voters believe that the Prime Minister really wants to halt them and is sparing no effort.
Ministers should do nothing to make a coup less likely as the country’s elites come to terms with the consequences of war.
Lessons from how the eastern part of the Roman Empire flourished after the western part of it fell.
Is the British public remotedly prepared for possible cyber attacks aimed at our national infrastructure?
Moreover, its leaders do not understand his motivations. He doesn’t want a win in Ukraine; he wants a continuing crisis.
As with the Iraq War, the public is none too appreciative when it realises it has been misled, not least thanks to dodgy data.
Whatever the outcome of Sue Gray’s investigation, we must draw a line under the questions being faced by the Government.
The bottom line is that no-one has to make these dangerous journeys. We need to be crystal clear about that.
You should not have to risk your life in a small boat. You should be able to apply at a British embassy and arrive on a plane.
Those who want to project force in the Pacific must explain how it would be consistent with maintaining our strength at home and nearer abroad.
It is a litany of uncomfortable and inconvenient truths. Obsessing over these does little to spur progress.
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.