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.
Even her warmest admirers will want her doctors to testify that she is fit enough to carry on without wrecking her health.
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
Plus: Johnson’s cunning plan. Crisis? What crisis? Paterson breaks into German. And when Green was chucked over a bridge.
Simply banging on about the socialist 1970s will not cut it. We need our own vision. Focus on shared ownership as the model for new housing would be a good start.
His sedulously-crafted speech wasn’t so much a crowd-pleaser as a big argument about Britain, Brexit – and the future.
This proposal already has considerable support from institutions, including the Yorkshire Building Society, who have published research into the benefits this change would bring.