He has not yet offered to resign. I think he will. When he does it will not bring down the Coalition, but it will change its nature. An unhappy Liberal Democrat parliamentary party, prodded constantly by unhappy activists in its constituencies, will acquire a leader and a spokesman, who is hugely popular in the country, […]
There should be so such thing. There should be Judicial power and Political power.The two are quite different. The first is impartial and is based on the judgement of what is proper within the law. The second is based on the judgement of what is best in the national interest. By its nature the first […]
If there is government by one party, it makes for good order and is in our tradition, for the principle of collective responsibility to apply. It is debatable in a modern world whether tensions known to media correspondents and lobbyists, should be held secret within the Westminster village and not shared with the public, to whom […]
This is becoming a multi-strand political story, with different facets. I intend to deal with each separately. First the media. There is a question of whether it is right and proper to make an appointment to see and M.P., pretending to be a constituent, when one is in fact a reporter wired up with the […]