“Rishi’s recent commentary and decisions on green matters, which was taken as denying net zero, no it is not! It’s making net zero achievable for ordinary people…”
“It about stopping us making the same mistakes next time. It’s about stopping it happening again to the tune of hundreds and thousands of lives.”
We hurl abuse at here-today-gone-tomorrow politicians and their advisers, while the permanent state flourishes like a green bay tree.
“If it were this country, and it was in proportion, we’d be talking about ten thousand people killed… and how would we react?”
The number of possibilities teaches us three lessons about politics today. Firstly, never to underestimate the role played by mere chance. Secondly, that this is not an age of great leaders who make their own luck. And, thirdly, that we need to choose more carefully in future.
Sunak agreed with Rees-Mogg and Davis that bank accounts must not be denied to anyone for exercising their lawful right to free speech.
In the same interview he said “I tend to be rather bad at politics”, which is true if one takes the holding of great offices of state as the yardstick of success.
The former Brexit Secretary, and leadership candidate, was talking to Camilla Tominey.
Trust the people is a good Conservative maxim. That should include trusting our members.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
Today’s parliamentary bout provides an excellent opportunity to review other vital perspectives on the legislation – and see which approach might be closest to the Prime Minister’s own.
The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
It is hard to see how he will manage to reconcile freedom of speech on the internet with the requirement to prevent legal but harmful content.