“I don’t want to see good Brexiteers – not fly-by-night or five-to-midnight ones – lost their seats and have Remainers in their place.”
“What we need to do though is look at how that money is spent, and make sure we are able to spend that money in the most effective way.”
The former Chancellor begins his transition from the Commons as an MP to a newspaper as an editor.
Our Executive Editor argues he will be “propped up on his bicycle, like the El Cid of the Labour Party”.
The Labour leader delivers his pitch, but Mark Francois asks: “Is that it?”
In the Commons, the Prime Minister challenges her opponents to lay out their plans for Brexit and the future of the country.
“This is the opportunity for the British people to have a decent, strong opposition – something that they currently do not have.”
The Labour leader refuses to say if he will stand down if he loses the election.
“Let the people decide.”
“Christ our Paschal Lamb has been sacrificed, alleluia. Therefore, let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, alleluia.”
The Prime Minister’s message for the season. “This Easter, I think of those values that I learned in my childhood, growing up in a vicarage”.
“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death and their bars as well our Saviour has destroyed.”
“There was darkness over the earth.”
“Where charity and love are, there God is.”
She contends that a “negotiated political solution” is essential, and that “Russia has an important role to play here, as well”.