The Chancellor should make further provision for them. But the vast though necessary expansion of state spending will need emergency powers-type checks.
Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat…Total Complete & Utter Victory.
A Black, sorry, Red Swan may carry him off. But in less than six months he has rescued the Conservatives, and is on the brink of delivering the referendum mandate.
The Business Secretary argues that Parliament’s actions are “discouraging businesses from taking the steps they need to take”, and holding up private sector investment.
It is time for the Commons to stop telling us what it’s against and to show what it’s for, which ought to be: this deal.
“Asking for more time is pointless and foolish,” Jacob Rees-Mogg argues. Also: why he believes leaving the EU will strengthen the Union.
Sir Oliver Letwin pledges his support to the government’s Brexit deal when it comes to a vote.
May gave Johnson her full backing, and so, after the vote, did Letwin.
He presented a clear choice between his deal and the people’s wrath.
On a vote on the deal, our calculation is that the Government will lose by two – though that bypasses abstentions. But such a vote is very unlikely today,
Of course, the amendment must be selected by the Speaker in order to be debated at all. But there’s little doubt that he will do so.
The place to put these proposals to the test is at a general election, not in a Parliament apparently determined to do little other than delay Brexit.
The ignorance of many MPs and ministers towards the state of seaside communities is particularly surprising as coastal constituencies elect a quarter of all MPs.