Tories need to learn from the past: putting the problem out of mind is what squandered the victories over devolution in 1979.
Also: watch as those who studiously ignored Trimble over the Protocol neuter his memory to canonise him in death.
Both candidates have committed to seeing the Bill through Parliament. But will they both use the new powers it will grant?
The Party’s internationalist-minded Left talks the rebellious talk, but is less ready to walk the walk.
This argument is often called upon when there is a requirement to act in order to safeguard an ‘essential interest’.
In what universe is “the peril which has emerged” not inherent to the structure of the deal he struck?
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
The Shadow Chancellor says the Government’s Northern Ireland Protocol bill ‘looks like it will break international law’.
As the Labour leader visits Dublin and Belfast, he shrinks from disclosing how he would solve the present difficulties.
The Foreign Secretary’s proposals for reforming the Protocol are extraordinary in their modesty. But the EU will never relinquish its advantage.
The Assembly is an inadequate vehicle for securing democratic consent, and 2024 is far too long to wait to do so.
The Attorney General on judges, Asian values, Spartans, the Good Law Project, Lord Frost – and why the Tories should revive the torch logo.
No volume of technical argument will matter if the debate remains framed entirely to the UK’s disadvantage.
Even if the Government has the will to act, it has rattled its sabres so long, and to so little effect, that this isn’t obvious.
The need to protect the Belfast Agreement is the most plausible argument as the Bill faces its second reading today.