Most Conservative MPs are desparate to avoid one any time soon. It may not have occured to some that bringing down the Bill could bring about precisely the outcome they want to avoid.
He also says that the Conservative Party “seems to me to be more strident than I am comfortable with, less compassionate than I am comfortable with, and verging on the xenophobic.”
The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
This history of the Labour Party brings out its religious origins, and its role in filling the gap left by the decline of the churches.
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.
His Bill may be held up in the Lords as he continues to insists that his Government will stop the boats. The only means of squaring the two would be an election with illegal migration centre-stage.
But Starmer, her new admirer, wore the complacent expression of a man who is 20 points ahead in the polls.
The key problem is stagnation. Margaret Thatcher’s reforms promoted mobility and opportunity. Now we are an economy which doesn’t change enough.
In his youth he was mocked for being weird, but in middle age he upholds conventional wisdom.
Claire Coutinho is clearly impressive, but has only been an MP since 2019, and the appointment of someone so inexperienced to so big a role comes with risks.
Looking back at her seven short weeks has reminded me that she was not unlucky, or ill-advised, or a victim of an establishment stitch-up, but the author of her own misfortune.
As his options narrow, Sunak has little choice but to get back to first principles, which would be the right course anyway.
A situation when Labour, representing the vast majority of seats and votes of British Muslims, becomes a party of Palestine and the Conservatives one of Israel would be antithetical to national harmony.