“I am confident the resilience is there, that people can enjoy their Christmas”, says Zahawi.
His comments follow criticism from Penny Mordaunt that welfare rates should rise in line with inflation.
Wallace is top again – with Cleverly, Badenoch, Braverman, Rees-Mogg and Mordaunt above 50 points. There’s a tentative air about this table, as the panel feels its way with the new regime.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
I’m haunted by the prospect of an inexperienced candidate making it to Downing Street with the Party’s most experienced people having backed another.
“She’s the mermaid on the front of the Titanic,” one MP remarked. He would not say who he was supporting, but evidently not Mordaunt..
He wins six of our ten possible second-round match-ups, suggesting his candidacy has potential if he can pass the MP stage.
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.
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
The Education Secretary highlights his desire to ensure everyone has the skills and opportunities to follow his journey from being a refugee to the Cabinet.
The Education Secretary closes our conference with a speech on future jobs and a Q&A with our Editor.
He is so close to Mordaunt and Truss as to make no difference, and is well placed in the event of a contest.
The Government now intends to remove the first 18 clauses of its own legislation and present the Commons with new ones in the autumn.