I think we generalise too much - the red wall is made up of a lot of different types of people, in particular people who've moved there relatively recently because you can get a nice house relat… (View Post)

Told you so. Gove is constitutionally unable to see a vested interest without assaulting it. In most situations that's a good thing. (View Post)

He's not altogether wrong. I remember a new MP in 1997 (not me!) wondering how to vote in the first free vote that we've had. He asked his whip, who said with an ironical smile "I don&… (View Post)

Not arguing with the maths, but you're assuming that the Tories see a bad result coming and go "oo-er, new leader time". Because replacing a leader is messy, it only hpapens when the s… (View Post)

There's a lively discussion on all this, as you'd expect, and in my day job I lobby for high welfare standards with protection against imports with lower standards (it's a mistake to t… (View Post)