Even though public concern about immigration seems to have eased off recently, there is reason for caution.
In both cases their opponents resort to character assassination and are left with no one against whom they can argue.
While trade deals have taken on an important political and symbolic value, their benefits are typically smaller and slower to materialise than many realise.
Lessons endure from my polling study of our new Prime Minister, carried out six years ago when he was London’s Mayor.
The new Prime Minister will inherit the worst political legacy in living memory – with the very barest of working majorities.
So I took myself off to Lords with Crispin Blunt, Lord Haselhurst, and Tracey Crouch for some serious cricket.
He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.
The White House attack on “the squad” risks turning out Democratic voters as a natural by-product of seeking to turn out Republicans.
Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.
The first in a ConservativeHome series of what the new Prime Minister must do in the month before Parliament returns in September.
Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.
The primary motivation to strike a fair agreement with the UK will be to apply pressure to the EU.