Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.
He will inherit a precarious Parliamentary position, and time for agreement is growing very short.
It is now more than two years since the last Queen’s Speech. This simply is not good enough.
It must necessarily have a worldview. The question is whether or not this has caught up with the Brexit vote.
The advent of Boris Johnson is contributing to Labour’s own strategic paralysis and leadership crisis. But whatever happens, McDonnell will flourish.
If artists are so unwilling to accept the support of industrial companies, perhaps they should be prepared to live off box office receipts alone.
Our pre-Commons stage take was that Johnson is best placed to do so on time. As ballot papers are returned, we stick by that judgement.
Paul Goodman and Mark Wallace on where Hunt’s and Johnson’s campaigns are – with today’s YouGov poll out and Sunday’s papers looming.
Until the Party is prepared to have this debate with itself, then he will continue to be at the mercy of a Brexit tiger that he helped unleash.
Plus: Johnson, not a populist. Hunt’s beside manner. Lewis and his highly professional CCHQ team. And: the courage of 16 year old Ajay.
Here is Conservative Voice’s eight-point programme for a reformed Party Board, Conference and constitutional structure.