I almost want to say thank you to the Green Party, for being the thing that finally pulls my head out from the sand, peels my eyelids open, and forces me to confront what a state British Jews find ourselves in. It is such a deeply sad one that I have desperately not wanted to acknowledge it, and I feel ashamed about that – it doesn’t seem to be an option anymore, and I hope for politicians who could do something about this, they feel similarly.
Starmer’s comment about a stunt ‘just before elections’ supposes in one way that a ‘stunt’ is one thing, but it’s ‘simply not cricket’ to deploy it just ahead of going to the polls. As he famously once said to a Tory Prime Minister – ‘Come off it’
Labour MPs must now carry not merely a damaged Prime Minister, but a grievously wounded one – and have to explain to their constituents why they thought that vote was a good one, and why they were content to be seen as “complicit in a cover-up”.
The Conservatives may have a procedural route to wound the Prime Minister – but victory is far from straightforward.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
In two years of watching this political race I’ve seen an unpromising start and a long uphill climb coming ahead, but I’m still confident that not only are the Tories not ‘out of the race’ they are contending.
Behind the calls for his resignation lies a quieter hope for some Tories that Sir Keir Starmer limps on, dragging Labour down with him.
Starmer’s self-righteousness, and refusal to explain why he sent Mandelson to Washington, have become intolerable.
Sir Keir spoke as though this were all somehow passive, something that only happened to him. Yet he could have asked at any point, particularly after press reports suggested Mandelson had failed vetting. The simpler explanation is that he did not want to know.
This whole saga goes to the heart of the decision making, quality control, fact checking, and judgement within this Labour administration. Mandelson for Starmer, the last man standing in the bloodletting since it all blew up, has gone from Prince of Darkness to Banquo’s Ghost.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
He once demanded resignations for misleading Parliament. Now he faces the same accusation. With each revelation, the focus shifts away from Mandelson’s appointment — and towards the Prime Minister himself.
If senior military men can suggest, without ridicule, that paying benefits to teenagers out of work might be better spent on paying them to train in the military, it is a mark of just where we are in the most volatile geopolitical circumstances most of us have known.
More important that how many councils the Conservative win next month is being able to demonstrate that where we are in power, we actually make a difference.