It was reported some backbenchers thought the scrapping of the 45p tax rate was “toxic” and would aim to block it.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
He may have less than a year, as Parliament returns and his Party’s conference looms, to persuade voters of his case – which he has scarcely even begun to make.
The King should seek to build the Commons up rather than consider it an embarrassment.
The right to protest does not confer protection on any activity or tactic with political motivations. The majority have the right to enjoy national occasions in peace.
Seventy-seven per cent of the panel have either “great confidence” or “some confidence” in it – though the latter constitute some three in ten of all respondents. Why the hesitation?
The ceremony took place today at Westminster Abbey.
Tomorrow’s spectacle is better understood as poetry than in the severely rational terms of democratic theorists who accept no need for religion and ritual.
Even in countries where voters would prefer a republic, it is a long way down their list of priorities.
The Order of St Patrick also has no business being dormant so long as Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom.
In government, Labor have so far confined themselves to gestures such as banishing His Majesty from the banknotes whilst relegating a referendum to a second-term issue.
Against a backdrop of blanket coverage of the ceremony, Sunak will be spared a weekend of headlines speculating about potential challenges following any set of gloomy results.
Britain missed its chance to harness her oil and gas wealth as Norway did – but we have another valuable asset portfolio, with a record of long-termist management, close at hand.