That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
It is remarkable that even after SNP MPs admitted that they needed to stop us leaving to salvage their project, this self-serving myth endures.
From my spot on the Domestic Abuse committee, I saw just how much this Government wants to champion the rights of those who have been victimised.
Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.
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The framing of “facts versus feelings” won’t work for the liberal right on race any better than it has for the liberal left on immigration.
Like it or not, the EU agreed to two customs territories on the island of Ireland – and a solution to the disagreement flows from that fact.
The proposition is backed by more than a third of those prepared to say how they’d vote – including an overwhelming majority of Tories.
In 2016, 38 per cent of voters in Scotland backed Brexit. So why is the Party currently stuck at 23 per cent in the polls for next year’s Holyrood election?
For all that Downing Street sources dismissed Douglas Ross as ‘Mr Nobody’, the Prime Minister has decided to replace him with two people.
By deflecting attention from their own record, the row is a huge gift for the SNP – and the stakes are much higher than the 2021 elections.
As a member of his first Cabinet, I was tested in Northern Ireland – as elsewhere the new government reduced the defict and reformed public services.
The available evidence “leads to a conclusion that the death rate in Northern Ireland is almost identical to that in the Republic”.
I am redoubling my engagement with its business community, which needs to know that our committment to ensuring UK connectivity remains strong.
If the UK government is to succeed in stamping its mark through direct investment, it will need to channel the zeal usually reserved for an underdog.