And what is Englishness, anyway?
The former Immigration Minister contends that the Government should instead require employers and universities to equip British workers.
Putting wholesale withdrawal in the manifesto would just poison the well for the next decade. Ministers should instead adopt a much more targeted approach to reform.
At this point, it’s hard to think of a single political quarter, left or right, that wouldn’t welcome comprehensive reform of London’s embattled police force. Yet it endures.
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Instead of building a legacy in concrete things they actually achieved, our leaders instead now try to conjure one by setting a binding but remote aspiration and letting others work out the details.
The horror of what has happened is now widely recognised. The state, which should uphold child safety, instead engaged in a programme of mutilating children.
Conservative backbenchers have not cheered their leader so loud and long for months.
Streeting celebrated the split in the Conservative Party on the smoking ban, and Labour’s “dominance in the battle of ideas”.
The Prime Minister adopted a carefully undramatic tone yesterday as he delivered his statement about Iran’s attack on Israel.
She, Penny Mordaunt, and Johnny Mercer continue to simply trade places on the podium, as they have since November – and only these three have a positive score of over 30 points.
39.89 per cent of respondents suggested trying to change the Party leader would damage the Conservatives’ prospects at the general election. Only 14.73 per cent of respondents said trying to change the Party leader would help them.
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Obviously the membership don’t set the strategy. But one wonders whether the Party might find it challenging to redeploy activists from seats that it (and only it) officially deems ‘safe’ to campaign in its fantasy marginals.
An unhappy prospect, I’m sure we all agree. But an increasingly likely one. Blood will have blood.