And he’s said to be ready to team up with George Osborne Hard to know what to make of the above story in today’s Sunday Times about Labour’s most successful leader in terms of winning elections. Whatever your view Blair he was an immense political figure and clearly has been looking for a role in the UK nine years after he stepped down as PM and quit as an MP. But quite what he is able to do now and…
YouGov: LDs could edge in front of LAB if it was only party with such a promise We all remember how in late 2002 and 2003 that the IDS-led Tories gave their backing to Blair’s invasion of Iraq. The Charles Kennedy-led LDs were the only national party to oppose and this stance stance helped them to their best ever performance at GE2005. We’ve now got a similar situation with BREXIT. May’s Tories have totally dished the idea and Labour’s position,…
Betfair punters make it a 54% chance that TMay will invoke Article 50 before end June pic.twitter.com/EyaO01qSvb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2016 The big BREXIT news this morning is that it has been made known that the government has drafted a one line bill as a contingency should the Supreme Court uphold the government’s appeal against TMay’s plan to by-pass parliament and use the Royal Prerogative. The bill is apparently worded in such a manner that the Number…
Picture: Raheem Kassam’s twitter feed. The tectonic plates are moving, so John Prescott once told us. Boy have they moved this year: we have seen the most almighty earthquake storm. What reverberations can we expect for Brexit from the election of Donald Trump? Is it good news or bad news for Britain? For decades Britain has had a strategy of being a bridge between Europe and the US, through its trading and political links to the EU and its military…
Embed from Getty Images Alastair Meeks who accurately predicted the decision of the Article 50 case gives his take on the appeal. The government got given a gut punch by the High Court in the Article 50 case. Its proxies in the press had a meltdown and the government shamefully declined to distance itself from the barrage launched at the judges. (Shamefully and stupidly, as we shall see shortly.) But now the caravan moves on to the Supreme Court where…
Don Brind on what the assurances to Nissan might mean The new Select committee on Exiting the European Union, who will hold their first meeting on Wednesday, will have the opportunity to shape the debate on what Brexit actual means. The 21-strong committee is like to have a majority of members who backed Remain. Eight of the ten Tories, including Michael Gove, were Leavers but all five of the Labour members, including the chair Hilary Benn, were Remainers. Of the…
That £350m “commitment” could be damaging The debate in Britain about health spending is fundamentally dishonest. The left constantly press for large increases in spending. The government constantly boasts about ever-increasing spending at or above inflation levels. Voices on the right frequently argue for scaling back the health services that the public sector provides. None of them address what Britain needs. Britain’s health needs are growing at a rate far faster than inflation, even if one uses measures of healthcare…
Amazon The elections are not as comparable as they might appear There’s an ongoing argument that’s being made every day that Donald Trump can take heart from the fact that the BREXIT polling, betting and forecasts were wrong. Certainly there’s little doubt that in broad terms he appeals to the same demographic groups that backed LEAVE. He’s tapping into much of the anger that we saw in the referendum. In the betting we’ve also got what we experienced ahead of…