“He talks about people in the House of Lords – perhaps he could explain why he put forward for a peerage… Tom Watson, who spread vicious conspiracy theories”.
if there are going to be political peers at all, there needs to be some connection to democratic politics. Allowing the parties to nominate peers is that link.
British support for Ukraine has so far been unwavering. But how long would it survive the return of Donald Trump?
The Prime Minister says he wouldn’t overule the House of Lords appointments committee – or make promises about the future.
The conference exhibited scepticism about levelling up and widespread enthusiasm for devolution – but less cognisance of the trade-offs it entails.
Starmer pops up in the Daily Telegraph’s opinion section from time to time, and this won’t have gone unnoticed in Downing Street.
Dowden, standing in for Sunak, did not dare to be dull by telling us what this Government is for.
The question is whether the Government can negotiate enough bilateral deals to solve the problem, or has to rely on the Rwanda scheme.
Sceptics will make valid points about this finding but there are good reasons to accept the picture at face value. It has him taking 50 per cent of the vote to Labour’s 33 per cent.
“In the five months since I launched the plan,” the Prime Minister says, “crossings are now down by 20 percent compared to last year.’
The expensive subsidy creates a domestic training bottleneck, whilst this country’s demand for healthcare workers is met through immigration.
The attempt this week to silence her when she spoke in Oxford has had the opposite effect of making her and her arguments far better known.
Now that Labour has ceded the ground by deciding not to abolish tuition fees, the Conservative Party is uniquely positioned to steal a march on their opponent.
Deliver on the economy, make life feel affordable, and ensure people can get a hospital appointment, and that 2019 coalition, might just be prepared to give the Tories a second look.