The odds are that the Government will win tomorrow. But it’s not hard to see how it could lose by accident.
This obscure but vital body enables Tory MPs to wield decisive power.
His Bill may be held up in the Lords as he continues to insists that his Government will stop the boats. The only means of squaring the two would be an election with illegal migration centre-stage.
Couples are waiting later and later to have children due to the cost of living in many areas of the country – of which housing plays such a massive part. It is certainly encouraging to see action is being taken to reduce some barriers to building, but this should be done with more haste.
The twenty-third article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
In the same interview he said “I tend to be rather bad at politics”, which is true if one takes the holding of great offices of state as the yardstick of success.
He is the longest serving Chairman of the 1922 Committee in its history.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee urges “self-discipline” in the Conservative Party, though “MPs should be hard to herd, we shouldn’t behave like a herd.”
He’s recently been in the news for laying into Gary Neville, which will have done his cause no harm at all.
But can he induce the backbenchers who applauded his victory to refrain from civil war?
“It’s certainly not a circumstance that I would wish to see,” says the Chairman of the 1922 Committee
It occurred to me that any Tory who did not wish to indicate a preference in this race could self-declare as a Desultory.
An atmosphere of hysterical light-headedness prevailed in the Committee Corridor. The stakes were so high, and so little could be done.
The Board has agreed to re-establish the Constitutional Review Committee to ensure we are continually looking for opportunities to cut bureaucracy and improve the way we campaign and grow our party.