With the terrible twosome backing Truss from right outside No10, it looks too much like BBC Truss is Boris's preferred candidate. The optics are awful for her on that. Glad that Shapps has final… (View Post)

30mph is not flying. It is paternalistic policy making driven by lobby groups not by proper research and evidence. Classic gesture politics (View Post)

If someone in the Home Office wanted to be officious, they could seek to strip him of his citizenship The backlash would be huge. But a Home secretary looking for a headline to launch her leadership … (View Post)

That is rather the point I was trying to make. Who surrounds the incoming PM really does matter. And their willingness to set aside dogma to listen to argument and assess evidence. Having military ex… (View Post)

In terms of experience for dealing with international conflict, has there been any PM in the past 40 years with anything in their background to help with being a war leader? Thatcher - chemist/barris… (View Post)