I don't think this will be what HMT were approving, as that's not the order of how things happen. As I understand it, the DoE will have bid to accelerate the programme from 50 per year to 2… (View Post)

When you start pining for the comforts of opposition, you're doomed to be in opposition for quite some time. (View Post)

The Daily Mail headline is particularly striking. They know their readership and this is a very damaging story for Sunak, which is being handled poorly by him, Hunt, and Keegan That said, TINA remain… (View Post)

Meh. They didn't bother in Little & Sad or in Eastleigh before the 1997 election, and it still turned into a tactical voting fiesta at the General Election. In a change election, voters deci… (View Post)

What did Ashdown really get out of it, though? He was the fall back option Blair ended up not needing. (View Post)