He’s recently been in the news for laying into Gary Neville, which will have done his cause no harm at all.
There are plenty of areas where wasteful public spending can be trimmed – but a strong dose of the wrong austerity will deepen the recession.
November 17th is a big day for the Sunak government, and the country. This financial statement will define politics up the next election.
The so-called Red Wall want us to set out a bold strategy for freedom and growth. If we do, voters lost at by-elections will return.
The Government seems to have no plan to communicate as cost of living woes multiply. Here’s a first stab at one.
The former Policy Unit head isn’t the institutional Treasury’s greatest fan, and it will watch this appointment closely.
Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.
But it looks as though some 40 others abstained. That’s a warning shot across the Government’s bows on tax rises.
That’s the biggest Tory revolt so far on a virus-related division, and enough potentially to defeat the Government in future.
Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.
The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.
If the Spartans hadn’t held out against the pleas of our colleagues then Britain would have been trapped in a customs union with no way out.