Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
Roughly 70 per cent hold both views – a measure of their high view of Cummings’ abilities…and their ultimate loyalty to the Prime Minister.
The pace of departure, the allegations about him and how they’re being handled are all inextricably linked.
“It was not about the lobby,” says a friend of Vote Leave. “It was about getting a message out to voters beyond the M25.”
I tried to get Badenoch on my show, but it was a straight “no” from Number 10 (as usual).
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
The Scottish Conservative leader calls for devolution from Holyrood to local councils, and says he is looking forward to campaigning with Boris Johnson.
In order to remain world-leading in science, the PM’s former adviser explained, it is necessary to take risks and cut out bureaucracy.
A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.
Does this sentence say more about a) Dominic Cummings? b) Carrie Symonds? c) The media? d) The dog?
The Government has put lateral flow tests at the heart of its plans to ease lockdown.
The best way of thinking about it isn’t to fix one’s gaze on direct subsidies, but to look wider – at our failure to turn British ideas into British prosperity.
Our panelists were also impressed with the Government’s decision to order 350 million doses of the vaccine.