While there are no guarantees that Starmer will go next year, Conservative strategists would be well-advised to make contingency plans.
Iain Dale, in his new life of the former prime minister, fails to convey either how loved or how loathed she was.
Badenoch accused him of taking freedom away from head teachers and selling out to the teaching unions.
A lesson that Starmer should learn from Boris Johnson. However glorious your majority might look on the morning after the election, events can soon overcome it.
Yesterday marked fifty years since Edward Heath asked voters “Who governs Britain?” and received the polite but firm reply of “Not you, mate”.
For all the Shadow Chancellor’s efforts to pose as the voice of fiscal discipline, pressure for higher spending from her colleagues and party continue to add up.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.
By the time the Government’s legislation is enacted, inflation may well be coming down, and a suitable wage settlement might be a viable prospect. However right this policy is, it might prolong a dispute that could fade of its own accord.
The unions were small-c conservatives. They paraded under heraldic banners, had no truck with such new-fangled ideas as women’s rights, and wanted to keep every coal mine in the country open.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
In a nutshell, the issue is that tightening monetary and fiscal policy at the same time could force the economy to a stuttering halt.
We should never forget the millions of people who are “just about managing” – they will find it harder to budget over the next few months.
Keynesian Macmillan got through four Chancellors in six years. We hope that Boosterist Johnson, who’s already lost one, doesn’t see this as a precedent.
The Prime Minister is the personal embodiment of a dying consensus he has neither the imagination nor the courage to salvage.