A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.
“If we were to stay as a rule-taker…that would not be delivering on Brexit.”
A low-key event with an invited audience next week will explore how to apply lessons and methods from the Party’s past to its present and future.
Improvements for tourism, the environment and road works … and we’re proposing to go big on beach huts.
Plus: Willetts loses at least one of his brains. Labour frets about losing Lewisham East (which it shouldn’t do). And: Morgan and Clarke, not the Brexiteers, are the real obsessives.
In reference to Clark’s comments earlier, the leader of the ERG points to previous discreditations of the “scare-story” approach.
Either the EU is an issue over which one should put conscience before whip, or it’s not.
Rees-Mogg argues the ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy was a product of Home Office failure. And: why “the transition deal is a bad deal” and a mistake.
“I’m not saying that there would be an organised push, but the letters would just go in to Graham Brady,” one senior pro-Leave backbencher told this site yesterday.
At each turn to date, they have decided that the best shouldn’t be the enemy of the good. Which suggests that they won’t vote against any heads of agreement – however imperfect.
Adopting the lexicon of the left muddles our thinking and undermines proper understanding of our positions.