I personally thought a lot of the ambition and vision that was appealing re HS2 was lost when the Eastern leg was cancelled, for what it’s worth. This latest update is scandalous too, but I feel like… (View Post)

I suspect that HS2 to Manchester is now dead. I doubt the Labour Party are going to resurrect this now. The Tories have made the decision to kill it. It gives Labour cover to say the money has been e… (View Post)

On whether Suella Braverman could win a GE…. I suspect she wouldn’t, but I sure as hell don’t want to put that to the test. We have to remember that politicians who trade on “saying the things others… (View Post)

I have now had a chance to watch the Suella Braverman speech. I do not take pleasure in saying this because it was full of the usual divisive rhetoric she has taken to delivering, but it was very, ve… (View Post)

He isn’t, yet. And I scoffed at this very thought only a few months back. But if there is one thing this conference is showing, there is a clear, inexporable shift to the populist right continuing in… (View Post)