“It’s simply a reality that all phones – including government ones – are easily hacked,” a Minister told me. “The difference with government phones is that they’re regularly tracked so we know about it sooner when it’s obvious – which it usually isn’t.”
Gove also suggested Sunak had been “vindicated” for his criticism’s of Truss’s proposals over the summer.
The re-appointed Levelling Up Secretary says the chain of messages looks “quite proper”.
Every leader fails on one or more of my tests. However, her special achievement is to have flunked all of them in the space of a few weeks.
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The Defence Secretary said there is no way Putin can be offered a way out, for he can be depended upon to reject it.
“There were a number of mistakes” made over the mini-budget announcement, and “people want reassurance”, he says.
Voters will simply not accept that the Conservative Party is starting from scratch yet again, with a programme for which it has no mandate.
The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
Sunak and Truss are indicative of an educational world divided between private schools and state comprehensives. Grammars can play a role alongside Gove’s reforms in ending that dichotomy.
Undoing the good work of dismantling Labour’s quangos, only to create another one, five times as big, in the Education Endowment Foundation, is plain old-fashioned folly.
In the course of a bizarre two hours before the Liaison Committee, Johnson showed undiminished abilities as a performer.
The fourth of a series of five articles on ConservativeHome this week about the main challenges that await the new Prime Minister.