I'm no defender of either Mandelson or Campbell - they were Machiavellian buggers in many ways. But they were operators - they knew that, to be effective, there needed to be a core of consistenc… (View Post)

There was an FoI request on this at the time. The answer was thus: --- 17 November 2022 Dear Mr Wareing Our ref: FOI2022/15165 Thank you for your email of 20 October in which you make a request under… (View Post)

And yet still the h8ers and naysayers claim she wasn't our gr8est PM. (View Post)

That's assuming Johnson would have maintained the 74% retention level beyond August 2022. Since then, he's been found to have lied to Parliament and, had he stayed on, he'd have been a… (View Post)

No, Hannan's pretty consistent position was that he wasn't in favour of leaving the single market and Brexit didn't entail doing to. Until, of course, it did. Johnson, as you say, was … (View Post)