Before it gets to that the political and economic realities would likely have forced a government to try and get emergency tax/spending measures through the HoC. At that point government backbenchers… (View Post)

Yes, actually, IMHO. It’s entirely possible they could have won the election without committing to those taxes not being raised. They were against a historically unpopular Tory Party who had complete… (View Post)

Leaving the ECHR would tear the Labour Party apart. I can see why some red wall MPs and government pragmatists might come to see it as part of the solution, but the Party’s activist class and a chunk… (View Post)

I find it hard to believe those rumours re Trump. News like that would surely leak more widely within a very short space of time. (View Post)

Wonder what the polling would be if you said “would you support or oppose requiring landlords to pay National Insurance on rental income, knowing that the cost of this is in most instances going to b… (View Post)