Anything that looks like a return to the “best-and-the-rest” model of the past will fail. Our modern, diverse school system is the key to restoring selection.
The carve-up of powers and staff between Johnson, Davis and Fox will be far from simple.
The sale of ARM Holdings to Softbank is a curtain-raiser for May’s new plan – over which he has charge.
“They know what we’ve always said – that they depend more on us than we do on them.”
It turns out we don’t need to retreat to our cellars with a stock of tinned food after all.
Plus: I tip him as Brexit Secretary, and just look what happens next.
In a bold move, she appoints Davis, Fox and Johnson – all outspoke Leavers – to her Cabinet.
Hammond, Fox, Javid. How will a generation of politicians raised under Thatcher adapt to the new Prime Minister’s desire for an industrial strategy?
Her camp wants to move on from the subject. Quite right. But she will find it hard to do so until she has put doubts about her commitment to rest.
With almost 200 votes behind her, she is the only candidate with a chance of steering a coherent Leave plan through a pro-Remain Commons.
Plus: the downfall of Boles. This Eagle won’t fly. What to do with Gove? Cameron should become Foreign Secretary. And: Out there in the country, Blair is still popular.
He should not end his political career without undertaking one more big job for his party and his country.
The case for Gove. His candidature is the one best placed not only to ensure that Britian quits the EU but that social mobility is boosted.
We would be better off out, in terms of jobs, wages and growth – and the cost of leaving would be smaller than its benefits.
I was warned that he was ‘a nightmare to work for’, and arrived on my first day understandably nervous. But nothing could have been further from the truth.