At the heart of her speech was not so much a new interventionism as a Church-formed moralism, a sense of public service – and a Good Samaritan Moment.
“We believe in the good that government can do.”
Erdington modernisation? The most notable feature of Erdington is Spaghetti Junction, “you don’t know where you’re going and could end up anywhere”.
She seeks a new direction – not left or right but outwards, away from Westminster and towards the country.
Chasing the middle ground is based on showing that we ‘care’ – and that if you ‘care’ you have to intervene. But the interventions can make matters worse.
Defeating Daesh will help keep Britain’s streets safe.
Hammond is no chilly technocrat – but a warm and genial technocrat.
To turn Lord Denning on his head, Brexit is like “an incoming tide flowing up the estuaries of England”.
I am thinking of founding a party which will stand up for the privileged few.
Her message to James Cleverly – and another, wider one to her audience.
She wants us to be a self-governing nation, and she’s right.
A tumultuous political year has brought a lot of changes to the list.
“Even now some politicians – democratically elected politicians – say the referendum isn’t valid… the referendum result was clear, it was legitimate”.
“It is not going to be a “Norway model”…It is going to be an agreement between an independent United Kingdom and the European Union.”
The Prime Minister also clarifies that she will be triggering Article 50 before the end of March 2017.