Granting ‘Royal status’ to Hillsborough is the latest small but welcome step by the Government to do just that.
This rebellion had little in common with most others, but the names of many who oppose the Government now show a certain predictability.
He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.
We’re now on Day Four of the controversy. This list began on Day Two and continues. One Minister has resigned from the Government.
The Defence Secretary accused the Leader of the Opposition of spouting anti-American, “anti-imperialist guff”.
This inconclusive squabble about whether to hold a general election cannot go on.
Never before has so much material been assembled from such a wealth of sources about the Leader of the House.
And Bercow, bad-mannered to the end, announces that he at least will leave on 31st October
But there was also a sense, outside the meeting of the 1922 Committee, that the revolution has only been postponed.
Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.
The Employment Minister embodies two reasons why the Government is still afloat – its jobs creation record and under-reported Ministerial loyalty.
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.