Starmer has an iron backside. He is determined to straddle that fence and no pesky Speaker is going to get in his way. (View Post)

Unfortunately, the political incentive is to move in the other direction, because the advantage of the stop start, lots of one-off projects model is that the politician gets to announce each individu… (View Post)

There is a fairly disturbing degree of intentional dishonesty on the face of it. Give the guy instructions in writing to reach a settlement with the sub-postmasters, and then tell him verbally (when … (View Post)

The swing from Tories to Labour during the 2017 general election campaign was 8%, in the opinion polls, and then an extra 2% due to opinion poll error. If we applied that election campaign swing to t… (View Post)

I suppose the one thing that stands out for me was his response to cancelling HS2. If he'd been a bit bolder then I think he could have built a strong argument about Labour still believing in th… (View Post)