It looks to be the least bad medium-term means of settling the future of abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
Speculation about pressure on Williamson, or calculation about Cabinet numbers, misses a key point: May must keep Davis and Fox onside.
The Home Secretary’s future is entangled with the calculations of May and the complications of Brexit.
Stop and search requires very careful and sensitive handling, but it’s hard to conclude that an increase isn’t warranted.
Futhermore, the Government needs to sharpen up its sense of mission. And there is a heap of talent on the Tory backbenches.
Given the resistance of Tory MPs to spending cuts and tax rises, Hammond’s easiest course would be to push any into the future. But this wouldn’t be problem-free…
Though if May moves Philip Hammond, or seeks to, she is also likely to move Boris Johnson, or try to.
In the current climate, this controversial announcement seems reasonably unsurprising. The issue is by no means straightforward, however.
None the less, a fall in the Conservative poll lead is not unhelpful to Downing Street and CCHQ at this stage of the campaign.
John Lamont selected to fight Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, as a poll puts Davidson’s team on course to win as many as 12 seats.
It isn’t necessary to be one of his supporters to believe that it is time for Wiltshire Police to put up or shut up.
She must prepare the political way for popularising MFN status if her programme is rejected by the other side of the table.
“I just feel worried. I don’t know if I would a hundred per cent want to vote for the Conservatives, because still emotionally I’m attached to Labour.”