That’s what Sarah Wollaston suggested on my show this week. Plus: my prison visit, sticking by your friends…and sticking with spending control in the Budget.
Giants of Fleet Street are making political errors which harm, not help, their cause.
Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.
There is a Labour tradition of defending brutal dictatorships.
The modern state is intended to restrain those who seek a monopoly on power. Such people naturally resent it when that system works.
Stephen Glover tells the story of a reporter who sets out to destroy a corrupt MP.
May’s manifesto is real politics – that’s to say, a serious attempt to prepare Britain for the post-Brexit challenges of the future.
By seeing off Le Pen and electing the most ideologically pro-EU president since Giscard d’Estaing, France has changed the game.
CCHQ has been taken to task elsewhere for imposing lists of candidates on seats with no connection to it. It certainly hasn’t done so in this case.
It was not an edifying spectacle, but it was convincing in its way.
Today’s papers show she already has a tough time pleasing everyone.
The Lord Chancellor has enraged the judiciary by not speaking up for it in what it saw as an hour of need.
Discuss.
Near the heart of a decision that both approved was a distrust of the style of politics pursued by the Chancellor’s predecessor.
If the Conservatives spoke a progressive alliance, and meant it, they might be able to make some progress – and break down virulent anti-Toryism.