My argument is simply one of affordability (including, by the way, by dropping the triple lock) if our public finances are going to be sustainable.
Employers, not just government, have an important role, to help victims – especially during this crisis.
Johnson will be well aware of this – and will be more concerned about heading Labour’s leader off than by the restive Tory press.
His TUC account of the harm that some businesses can do should be balanced by one of the good that more do – and by projecting a personal theology of wealth creation.
Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.
Fairly or unfairly, the pro-EU cause is already associated with elites. The arrival of the Withdrawal Bill in the Upper House will do nothing to diminish that impression.
On the anniversary of the EU referendum, the party leadership needs an audit of what went wrong this month, and a plan for the Tory future in this Parliament.
As MPs, we have to react positively, optimistically and maturely as we try to make sense of the mandate given to us by the British people.
They will be strange, edgy experiences: I can hardly wait.
I believe we’ll win. But I could be wrong. So all this could be only a few weeks away…
She has become the classic Golden Age detective novelist. But that was not her world, nor that of her readers.