Plus: Cox, another possible. Plus 15 names in total. Women for May. And: I will make sure the Treasury backtracks on the loan charge scandal.
It is very hard to see how the Commons could stop a no deal Brexit without forcing a general election. Assuming the Prime Minister keeps her word.
The numbers in the Knesset are finely balanced, and the search is on for a figurehead to end Netanyahu’s decade in power.
Don’t presume anything about a Commons vote on May’s deal. Especially a second vote. If she’s still in place after a first one goes down…
Rather than going over the heads of the Unionist parties, the Government needs to find a way to address their concerns.
Rather than obsess about lack of aspiration, it is the lack of social capital that we should be focusing on.
There has been a tendency to suppose that because Britain’s power has declined in relative terms they must have become totally useless.
“Tory MPs need to think…do they want Theresa May leading us into the next election?”. Plus: what she could have done to prevent him writing his letter.
In a nutshell, this deal would bring back control of borders and money. But not laws in any meaningful sense. Which is where the problems begin.
My conversations with Party members and constituents have provided an almost consistent message that the Prime Minister should be supported.
May won’t yield to their demand for renegotiation unless she believes that at least some of them will quit. And on the basis of last week, why would she?
Article 20 says that the backstop will only ‘cease to apply’ if ‘the Union and United Kingdom decide jointly’ that it should end – no sovereign right for the UK to leave.
The principle of democracy has served us well for a very long time. Signing it away would be a dreadful mistake.