The Foreign Secretary knows that she is being played off by them against the Chancellor. They know she knows. And she knows they know she knows.
Michael Gove, Jerome Mayhew, Nick Timothy and more join us to discuss the mission of the New Social Covenant Unit.
Michael Gove, Claire Coutinho, Guy Opperman, Jerome Mayhew and Nick Timothy join our panel.
Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?
The centre isn’t where he or ConservativeHome or anyone else wants it to be. It’s where it is – “Far From Notting Hill”.
Stateside narratives have a tendency to be imported into UK politics – one of the knock-on effects of this messy Presidential election outcome.
If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.
The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.
If the Prime Minister doesn’t have confidence in his most senior Ministers, it’s impossible to see how anyone else can.
Some of its problems can be fixed. Others won’t be. And one perhaps can’t be: namely, that this Parliament seems to be incapable of saying No.
The Treasury’s decision is a vital moment in the battle against coronavirus and in the emerging consensus about the country we want to be in future.
The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
If Downing Street doesn’t grip the campaign against Patel by allies of her Permanent Secretary and others, it may spiral out of control.
As with Brexit, much of the Tory family finds itself pitted against the permanent State on how Britain aligns itself in the world.