But all that Counsellors of State are is the people to whom the Monarch CAN delegate functions. By law, they are the four people highest in the order of succession over the age of 21. So they only ha… (View Post)

True, but is he wrong? I know we'd all like to see Putin in the Hague, or hung up on a lamppost or whatever. But we need to look at a realistic exit strategy. The difference between Macron and L… (View Post)

This isn't something that can happen in practice because, ultimately, it's the courts rather than the Police who find someone to have committed an offence. In this sort of case, the Police … (View Post)

I know that's been put around by right wing commentators, but it doesn't really make sense as an argument. When Police investigate a public figure, they already know that a decision to char… (View Post)

Hunt lost because he was broadly the continuity candidate in a change election - he was deemed inappropriate for the occasion by the Tory selectorate; he wasn't rejected for being loathsome to t… (View Post)