James Frayne is Director of Public First and author of Meet the People, a guide to moving public opinion. How much of an electoral risk is the Government taking by threatening to break international law? There hasn’t, to my knowledge, been much published polling...
The changes that Cox wants from the Government to the UK Internal Market Bill
ConservativeHome understands that the former Attorney-General, who expressed his reservations about the Bill yesterday in the Times, will support it were the Government to make five concessions. These are concentrated on a guarantee to the Commons that the Government...
Gale and Percy oppose the Bill’s Second Reading. 34 Tory MPs don’t vote.
Only two Conservative votes against the Bill yesterday evening – Roger Gale and Andrew Percy. A paltry number was to be expected, since most of those who oppose the safeguarding provisions, which the Government claims would break international law if applied,...
Ben Bradley: I will not be undertaking unconscious bias training – and call on my colleagues to take the same stand
Ben Bradley is MP for Mansfield. The evidence is growing that many of our institutions are dominated by a metropolitan “groupthink” that is intolerant to any diversity of views, whether it’s the BBC, the British Library or even government departments. The...
Nigel Farage warns PM’s withdrawal agreement “is not the Brexit we fought for”
Advertisements The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that Prime Minister Boris Johnsons withdrawal agreement with the European Union “is not the Brexit we fought for” and claimed MPs who vote for the PMs withdrawal agreement will face a political challenge...
Richard Holden: If Starmer stands – or kneels – for each passing fad, he won’t rebuild trust with working class voters
Richard Holden is MP for North West Durham. Trust by the electorate of a political party boils down to a belief about whether someone feels you represent them, their family and their community at an underlying level. The trust in Labour that had existed for a century...
WATCH: ‘If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go’
“If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go,” says Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, about the government’s internal market bill which could breach international law#Marr https://t.co/Qoevttrfze...
WATCH: Labour accuses the Government of ‘unnecessarily inflicting’ a Brexit standoff
‘Argument over Brexit is the last thing the country needs right now’ Shadow NI Secretary @LouHaigh says the government are “unnecessarily inflicting” debate on #Brexit on the country during the #COVID19 pandemic.#Ridge https://t.co/HwxhaaWQWo...
The United Kingdom is set to opt-out of European human rights laws
Advertisements Reports have been circulating that the United Kingdom is set to opt-out of major parts of European human rights laws, meaning potential heightened tensions with the EU. According to reports, Prime Minister Johnson, his aides and ministers are drawing up...
WATCH: Coveney – Claim that EU would blockade UK shipments to Ulster ‘inflammatory language’
#Marr: Would the EU block goods entering Northern Ireland from Britain? Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney: This “inflammatory language” coming from No 10 is “spin and not the truth”#Brexit https://t.co/bGfFiQ3VjM pic.twitter.com/zG3l0rKAvd —...
