She has taken a decisive step along a road that is very clearly signposted. She cannot turn back without political ruin. And there is no sign whatsoever that she wants to.
Poaching eye-catching individuals with technical expertise but no political loyalty has not proved a good way to run a Government.
It’s difficult to reconcile the Prime Minister’s evident ambitions with the realities of her circumstances – and not obvious she’s trying to.
The traditions and idiosyncrasies of our legislature are a precious inheritance, and the Prime Minister must preserve them.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act is not an impenetrable barrier, but it does complicate things.
Burning down a dirty house is more newsworthy than cleaning it, but not wiser.
Which former aide turned down a peerage? See text (and picture left).
Answers to be published this afternoon.
The Upper House is a valuable part of our constitution. The Prime Minister must clarify its role, rationalise appointments – and cull its membership.
The clamour about last week’s elections and June’s EU referendum is obscuring the deep problems that the Government and the country face.
The full text of his Inaugural Lecture to the Bingham Constitutional Studies Programme at Balliol College, Oxford.
Continuing our series on how the Prime Minister’s aim of a reformed Europe, claimed by him as the basis for a Remain vote, was not achieved by his renegotiation.