The Chancellor has little headroom for another Budget. The Rwanda plan is a dud. A Nigel Farage return looms. How much worse can the Tory position become in the next six months?
She not only failed to find the words to win round her Tory opponents: she did not even seem to realise this was necessary.
You know politics is changing when your tour of competitive parliamentary seats takes you to a seat Jeremy Hunt held in 2015 with a majority of more than 28,000.
More than 60 years on from CP Snow’s famous lecture on the ‘Two Cultures’, the gulf he identified between the sciences and the arts is still with us.
We have delivered on the 2019 election promise to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. Crime is going down. The police are being given the equipment and kit that they need to do their job properly.
The Conservative Party must continue its commitment to ending malaria and being a leader in international development in its next election manifesto.
The harsh reality is that we cannot let Putin win in Ukraine or it won’t stop there. Xi is already threatening Taiwan, and watches the West’s response.
A straw in the wind, perhaps, that the Prime Minister may yet be considering going to the country over the summer.
How does the Parliament of a country one-fifth of whose territory has been occupied by Russia end up voting for a Russian-style law to attack independent civil society?
We should build an evidence-based early years policy that puts cash back in parents’ pockets so they can choose how best to care for their children.
We created Operation Viper to tackle County Lines, and this has made over 200 arrests and closed 45 per cent of the County Lines in Dorset.
Labour’s embattled Deputy Leader was relieved to find herself taking part in a pantomime.
The EU will not disappear: it will always be our closest and largest trading partner, so we will always have to negotiate with it. The easiest way of negotiating with the EU is as a leader from within rather than as a supplicant from outside.
Simon Harris seems determined to improve the mood music, talking up the need for strong Anglo-Irish relations and refocusing Northern Irish policy on maintaining the peace and building prosperity.
As both sides have breached the old rule prohibiting direct attacks, yet emerged with their deterrence broadly intact, we cannot discount the prospect of a repeat of April’s regional pinball escalation.