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So far so good. We might just get to the end of the week without a Cabinet exit

So far so good. We might just get to the end of the week without a Cabinet exit

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PaddyPower This is unlike each of the previous two weeks As BBC Radio 4’s the Now Show has observed TMay’s Cabinet had begun to look like Strictly with a much publicised departure in the previous two weeks. Well so far this week, and I know it is only Thursday, it looks as though TMay’s cabinet will remain intact. Her deputy and long-standing friend from her Oxford days, Damien Green, hangs on and my guess is that TMay will fight tooth…

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Now it’s being established that Russia did interfere with EURef what next?

Now it’s being established that Russia did interfere with EURef what next?

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Big Times story on the huge Russian social media effort to influence the Brexit referendumhttps://t.co/NE7FwmPvhh pic.twitter.com/REdGjjRgOZ — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2017 At some stage it might be argued that this undermines the validity of the result In the US the objective of those trying to examine the Russian impact on their Presidential election a year ago is clear – to undermine and possibly get rid of Trump. Whether they succeed or not will be dominate the political narrative…

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Why the Tory plotters wanting to oust May need have no worries about letting Corbyn in

Why the Tory plotters wanting to oust May need have no worries about letting Corbyn in

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A new CON leader WILL NOT mean an early general election With the Sunday newspaper reports that the CON MPs plotting an early retirement for Mrs May being just 8 MPs short of the 48 required for a confidence vote we could be very close to a formal move against Mrs May. One of the big arguments that May backers and the Tory whips are apparently making to MPs is that if she goes early then it heightens the risk…

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Sir Robert Peel and the Corn Laws – the ghost that haunts Theresa May

Sir Robert Peel and the Corn Laws – the ghost that haunts Theresa May

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There is a way to avoid a Crash Brexit – but it’ll destroy May, her party and trust All parties of any age have ghosts that haunt them: spectres from disasters of the past so great that they dare not be forgotten yet dare not be truly remembered either. Indeed, they may not really be remembered in detail at all; their legacy today lying not in memory or even mythology but in the culture and behaviour that evolved to ward…

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When will there be the next Cabinet resignation? William Hill’s new market

When will there be the next Cabinet resignation? William Hill’s new market

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Theresa’s Balliol boys look the most vulnerable These are indeed turbulent times at Westminster with two Cabinet exits in the space of a week. Now Hill’s have opened a market on not WHO will be the next to go but WHEN. These are the options and odds: When Will Next Cabinet Minister Resign (Full Cabinet Members only) 2/1 November 5/2 December 8/1 January 10/1 February 12/1 March 6/4 April or later Clearly there are two who have featured prominently in…

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Mrs May has missed an opportunity and it could be costly

Mrs May has missed an opportunity and it could be costly

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Cyclefree reflects on a dramatic week It was Abba Eban who said of the Palestinians that “they never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” However true this may or may not be of the Palestinians, it is certainly true of Mrs May. One Cabinet resignation does not have to lead to a full-scale reshuffle, of course, particularly if the PM cannot be certain how many of the possible candidates have been guilty of knee touching, knee tremblers or any…

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The Williamson appointment makes it even less likely that TMay will stay until Brexit

The Williamson appointment makes it even less likely that TMay will stay until Brexit

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Good from @IsabelHardman on TMay's authority being undermined further by promoting Gavin Williamson https://t.co/zf1bv75Yw1 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 2, 2017 I’ve long regarded Isabel Hardman (daughter of my former BBC colleague and friend, founder of CAMRA, Mike Hardman) as one of the best when it comes to taking the pulse of the Parliamentary Conservative Party and her latest piece on the reaction to the Williamson appointment doesn’t disappoint. What stands out is that this is a huge surprise. Ladbrokes…

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If Damian Green goes that could put massive pressure on the PM

If Damian Green goes that could put massive pressure on the PM

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Getting closer to TMay. Damian Green, her deputy & long standing Oxford friend being investigatedhttps://t.co/FhqNllVt4z pic.twitter.com/Lz4k3NVT9N — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 1, 2017 The political friendship between Theresa May and Damian Green goes back more than three decades to their time as students together in Oxford. He served in the Home Office with her and it was no surprise that Green was appointed a Cabinet minister in July 2016. It was to him that she turned to after GE17 disappointment…

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