The architects of Project Fear seem locked into a state of permanent depression about the UK’s future.
Some people believe that it doesn’t matter if we stay in the EU de facto during such a time. This is not the view of ConHome’s respondents.
There was a genuine sense of grievance that policy suggestions and campaigning ideas are never listened to.
While we still have a commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of our GDP on foreign aid, I would much rather see such funds allocated to our Overseas Territories.
This proposal already has considerable support from institutions, including the Yorkshire Building Society, who have published research into the benefits this change would bring.
The new rules require rebels to strike openly and in strength. Trying to get around them and do things the old-fashioned way… doesn’t work.
People are not yet at the point where they believe the party in government needs kicking out; they are still willing to give us a hearing.
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.
The key question is not whether we can diverge, but whether we can do so without asking the EU first and obtaining their prior agreement.
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
The Spanish Prime Minister’s tin-eared reaction to police violence served to heighten, not dampen down, tensions.
Some employers have been doing very nicely out of labour which puts up with low pay, poor conditions and little flexibility in their hours.
If it might not be the catastrophe it must have seemed, today has not made things any easier.
I can say, with hand on humble heart, that I have never seen, or even heard of, a document so unconstructively negative as the Guidelines.