Schooling is such a totemic and unsolved question in this country that I think that he knows that's just a totemic, symbolic answer nowadays - a centrist signal to cancel out his leftwing signal… (View Post)

Staking out the pragmatic position. This will be the Starmer playbook - both appeals to the left, such as in the video last night, and appeals to the pragmatising centre. Could work very well. (View Post)

Must have been on a scholarship, as I doubt his father's factory worker wages would have managed it. (View Post)

Running proxies there as the Iranians have been doing for 15 years. (View Post)

This story about Johnson and Cummings outlawing an extension next year is extremely significant. It may mean that this new pragmatic face people were hoping from them next year on the negotiations ma… (View Post)