We have become a party for whom the grotesque is the primary mode of communication. Just to reiterate, I’m not talking about policy or principle here, but a predilection for the odd and off-putting in presentation.
When a minister comes under attack from the parliamentary lobby, petty allegations are treated as monstrous crimes.
In a politics over-stocked with PPE graduates from Oxford, she has shown that a Liverpudlian who left school at 16 can triumph.
Sunak responded in a tone of impregnable reasonableness to accusations about Williamson.
The pair were discussing the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, and the resignation of Gavin Williamson.
He rejects “other allegations about my past conduct…but I recognise these are becoming a distraction for the good work this government is doing for the British people”.
Over and above his future hangs a bigger question – namely, whether holding Ministers properly to account is the same thing as pile-ons by the media pack.
“He was expressing frustration but he regrets doing so,” adds the Cabinet Office Minister. “It was a difficult time for the Party.”
The number of young people into higher education keeps on rising and has gone over 50 per cent. It is nothing to do with any target.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
A number of ministers tipped for removal in the reshuffle were nowhere to be seen.
The most important quality for the next Secretary of State, I would have thought, is as a problem-solver/fire fighter.
The NHS which has seen its productivity collapse, and is facing enormous cost pressures as the population ages, must surely be first in line for the application of the tools as they emerge.