I find it incredible that even the rightwing Legatum Institute, backer of GB News, is now suggesting today that without a 10% uprating of Universal Credit this winter, "a million people will sli… (View Post)

.."and Liz Truss agreed not to blow it up as a result of a dispute over Northern Ireland, knowing how many other issues she already to deal with on so many fronts." (View Post)

A clinch with Carrie, a stroke of Larry, and some red wine on the sofa ? And some furious scribbled plottings for his return, perhaps ? (View Post)

Paul Johnson of the IFS sounding distinctly iffy about Truss overall, on C4 news earlier. He seems to draw a very clear disrinction between what he calls "essential one-off costs", like the… (View Post)

That's to rewrite history. Grieve and the others only came in when May had already sufficiently caved in to the extremists on her side to be threatening no-deal as a negotiating tactic, and even… (View Post)