Also: Welsh Conservative leader disowns the national manifesto; and Villiers defends the party’s choice of candidates in Northern Ireland.
Also: Labour MPs promising on the doorstep not to ally with SNP; more bad news for Welsh Labour as support for more powers slumps; Irish Government legalises drugs by accident.
The “peace process” is not a get out of jail free card – whether or not it ever justified handing them out.
Also: SNP attacked by Scottish councils for annulling hundreds of millions of poll tax arrears; and Plaid MP attacks Government over driving licence flags.
We have named four – IDS, Grayling, Gove and Hammond. The Times cites Letwin. Javid has said that he’s not afraid of Britain leaving.
Here is a book that, as much as any I can think of, needs to be read aloud. Tolkien, like many Catholics of his generation, understood the power of incantation.
Also: Villiers’ proposal on parades dispute ‘sunk’ by nationalists; new complaints regulator needed to combat NHS ‘defensiveness’ in Wales.
Also: Welsh Tory leader denies blackmail ‘cover up’; Sinn Fein accused of intimidating businesses over Gaza; and Ann Clwyd reconsiders retirement.
While new women smiled on the Treasury Bench, scattered about the Chamber were ex-ministers who imagined they could afford to think for themselves.
Plus: The shuffle I want. Brown flops. Why on earth do Conservative Governments pour millions into Liverpool? And: In memory of Andy Wilson.
Also: Plaid take hard line against UKIP; ‘Amnesty letter’ investigations begin; and questions for Ruth Davidson.
Also: Theresa Villiers sent a bomb in the post and Welsh councils use ‘anti-terror’ legislation to surveil employees.
Theresa Villiers is Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and MP for Chipping Barnet Later today, a number of the world’s most powerful leaders will start arriving in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit. For a few days, the eyes of the world will turn to Lough Erne, just outside Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, at […]