The Home Office is a legendary graveyard of political ambition, and Patel is less well placed to escape burial than was Theresa May, who won the 2016 contest.
A ‘law and order’ party which presides over the effective decriminalisation of burglary is going to end up in serious trouble.
It seldom occurs to this author that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and trust in the public’s common sense.
The authors reply to William Atkinson – who suggested a week ago on this site that it should not.
Cooper is on top of her brief, yet somehow failed to press home her advantage as she pointed out to Patel that many criminals are getting off scot free.
Labour had a slightly higher mean likelihood voting score among voters as a whole than the Conservatives.
Our political constitution rightly puts our representatives, not the permanent bureaucracy, in the driving seat.
This partnership is a world first and will change the way we collectively tackle illegal migration.
The Home Secretary’s reticence in publicly backing the Prime Minister reflects concern from those enforcing the law about defending those seen to break it.
Shadow home secretary says she does not “understand why Priti Patel is so failing to get a grip on this”.
To waste time now on internal factionalisation would be indefensible to so many party members who worked so hard to secure our majority.