They’re an easy target for criticism, but SpAds make all the difference to the Government’s performance and the Party’s prospects.
The evidence suggests that what would most improve this terminal score is delivering Brexit – not a new leader.
The investigation, after all, concerns the systematic rape of underage girls. The non-reaction to it says much about our culture and times.
He’s right to challenge Johnson vigorously before the ballot papers go out. We need as much debate as possible.
There are real, viable answers to this sticky problem. But rebuilding trust may be as hard as resolving technical questions.
Leavers insist correctly that the EU is a political project first and foremost. Which helps to explain why this scheme is unlikely to fly.
Speaking to many donors at the Birmingham hustings on Saturday, I found that the Foreign Secretary’s quiet assurances were more attractive to them.
As the Mayor tours TV studios to express his disapproval of Trump and Brexit, our capital city suffers.
“Spot on” policy questions to Johnson and Hunt in Birmingham yesterday showed Tory activists as they really are.
The crucial audience that will test this claim is not, for the moment, voters as a whole – but the 150,000 or so Conservative Party members.
Paul Goodman and Mark Wallace look back on the MPs’ ballots, forward to this new stage of the contest – and probe the front-runner’s Brexit commitment.
We have now perhaps reached the point where we are as a nation as Leave-ready as we’ll ever be.
If he is looking for a legacy beyond Brexit, then ‘rural proofing’ all government policy would be a good place to start.