As well as having the ability to indulge his conscience provided by a second career, one expects that Labour’s newest MP is an NHS practioner first and a politician second.
We face an unprecedented number of ex-prime ministers trying to spin their legacies, and an unprecedented number of outlets in which they can do so. This will not be helpful.
The UK needs to be prepared for a possible reality in which the EU may be a more significant player in European defence and security.
Or: “Why Marjorie Taylor Greene was not entirely wrong to tell the Foreign Secretary to kiss her ass”.
Amidst all the sound and fury prompted by Trump on both sides of the Atlantic, the highly inconvenient truth is that he is correct. In the defence context, too many European countries have been delinquent for decades.
According to YouGov, the Party commands a plurality of voters only among the over 70s. As far as voting intention is concerned, the Conservative Party is literally dying on its feet.
Only 34 per cent of Palestinians want a two-state solution. We may recognise Palestine, but the vast majority of its residents will never recognise Israel. The cycle of violence will continue.
Tory MPs have refused to go and canvas for their candidate, the girlfriend of the disgraced Peter Bone.
“We are prepared to follow our words and warnings with actions”, Cameron tells Kuenssberg.
The Foreign Secretary talks to Trevor Phillips about performing his role from the House of Lords.
The confidence to walk the streets safely, the right to interface directly with our elected representatives, the ability to speak our minds freely – these fruits of peaceable British toleration are being eroded by an extremist tendency that has grown unchecked for far too long.
It insists that there was no plan to move to by-election rules. “We’re not so stupid as to push a scheme that we know would be opposed by a large number of MPs.”
It pulled out of Gaza previously for a reason. Yet it will have no alternative but to stay there, if it is unwilling to hand over control to either foreign peacekeepers or the Palestinian Authority.
We have become a party for whom the grotesque is the primary mode of communication. Just to reiterate, I’m not talking about policy or principle here, but a predilection for the odd and off-putting in presentation.
By addressing the primary obstacle to volunteering – namely, work commitments – we can ensure that individuals can give time to good causes without losing out on essential pay.