I have a horrible feeling they’re right. If it happens though (short of some huge explosion in hospitalisations and deaths in the next 3 days) it will be the first lockdown that I personally will not… (View Post)

I’m not sure I see any alternative other than those two. I can’t think of the last time a PM entered office mid Parliament who hadn’t held a great office of state. Yes conventions are made to be brok… (View Post)

Word of caution regarding the idea of a VONC after the local elections: I can’t think of a time when local elections have ever triggered a VONC. The problem with local election results is that the me… (View Post)

You know, apart from the paper this morning that says exactly that. (View Post)

My view is that Boris was a tool (well, still is, but you know…) to get us out of the EU. That’s what people wanted; that’s what he did. Attitudes to Boris beyond that were ambivalent in 2019 save th… (View Post)