Our regret that he is no longer in place is cancelled out by his own suggestion that he shouldn’t really have been doing his job at all.
He was placed under no real pressure by the Leader of the Opposition, whose questions were far too long.
“He’s clearly very bitter and angry for no longer being in his job and wants to take it out on the Prime Minister”, adds the former Tory leader.
The more radical his plans are, the more resistance there will be. But one can’t serve up a municipal omelette without breaking eggs.
His exit was coming. But there’s a risk for Johnson of a media ramp, with other Ministers vulnerable to a feeding frenzy.
A brief apology doesn’t justify him remaining in post. It’s now up to him to do so live. This is one for Andrew Neil, assuming he’s available.
The single most important thing for right-leaning outsiders to understand is that boards don’t control most of a firm’s political comment.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
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The Labour leader for some reason declined to test fire the latest ammunition supplied by the former Downing Street adviser.
Furthermore, I will not attend the Conservative Party Conference if vaccine passports are required.