During the weeks and months ahead, Conservative MPs will need to use their heads as well as their hearts to reach the Brexit winning line.
Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Dan Hannan, Liam Halligan, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat & others will speak. And there’s a special discount for ConHome readers.
Marr quizzed him about Hammond’s predictions regarding Brexit costs.
He adds that Olly Robbins is a “patriotic man”, who “wants to get the best for Britain”.
The Shadow Chancellor’s “preference” is a general election.
The gloomy predictions of the Remain campaign proved ludicrously mistaken, but that does not mean there will never again be bad economic news.
Plus: Why Leave.eu supporters are more in step with Conservative policy than Soubry; and: shaking things up on the airwaves.
“The leadership is doing nothing substantive to address this erosion of our core values. It saddens me to say that we are increasingly seen as a racist party.”
Anyone claiming the UK can negotiate meaningful free trade deals while locking itself into the EU rulebook is propagating a delusion.
The Prime Minister lacks panache, but it takes guts to keep going. Leadership requires the fortitude to cope with being weak.
We must replace the EU’s clunky and inflexible CAP with a system that rewards public goods, not box-ticking.
Failing to take back control would be to ignore the largest democratic vote in British history. The consequences would be dire.
These months of change have electrifying potential for renewal and reform. Such opportunities are precious.
But more money and powers need to be given directly to the North to drive further progress.
In the first of a new mini-series evaluating the EEA, the author of ‘Norway then Canada’ argues the route has been wrongly neglected.