Shouldn’t local Assocations have the right to select their candidate? It is far from obvious to us that the answer is no.
It was never possible to maintain exactly the same benefits of EU membership whilst walking away from the institutions and the rules.
This is a contribution to the debate – now let’s see what the candidates offer during the week ahead.
Our system needs a means of ensuring that a Remain Parliament honours a Leave referendum – and that this principle is applied more broadly.
Their latest plan is to push through in a single day legislation which would involve major constitutional changes.
I welcome the suggestion that local Associations should follow the lead that the National Convention took last weekend.
With 45 days left, unless workarounds or extra time can be found, uncomfortable decisions may have to be made on which Brexit Bills to prioritise.
If the United Kingdom’s negotiating position appears incoherent, much of the blame rests with those who put the legislature in charge.
Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.
Courtesy of Philip Cowley, here are some markers for this evening’s votes, when they come.
Short of backing Labour in a no-confidence vote, rebels can only make such a departure more chaotic and hope the Prime Minister buckles.
If all this is correct, the EEA route seems to me a sensible way forward if Parliament can’t agree on a deal.
The electorate are less and less convinced by such arguments about party identity and destiny. Far underground, the tectonic plates are moving.
Downing Street has spent the summer months diligently working through the mathematics of how to eat up as much time as possible.