Any proceedings against him under the Party’s Code of Conduct threaten a cats-cradle of conflicts of interest and breaches of natural justice.
Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?
It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.
Ed Husain has written an excellent account of the Islamic world, and of the inability of doctrinaire secularists to comprehend it.
The hard truth is that for the country’s politicians what European governments think is of secondary importance. What counts is Congress and Trump.
Voluntary-aided status works both for Catholic schools and everyone else. Furthermore, lifting the cap from new institutions could have had unexpected consequences.
But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.
Other issues to be addressed include religious slaughter, the fur trade, cruelty, puppy mills, factory farming, testing and increasing threats to our wildlife.
Plus: Brexodus, what Brexodus. The Gay Hussar improves. James Cleverly impresses. And: join Liam Halligan, Ayesha Hazarika and I on CNN Talk.
It is vital that we all work together to fight against an increasingly abusive public discourse – wherever it may come from – that coarsens public debate.