Tory race should come down to experience July 6, 2016 By Thursday night we'll know which two Tory MPs will face a ballot of the party membership. One will emerge as David Cameron's successor in No 10. Five aspiring PMs entered the first round of voting yesterday, and now just three remain. Liam Fox was the first to fall. Having stood unsuccessfully for the party [...]
Who’s going to be Britain’s next Prime Minister and how will he/she be chosen? June 25, 2016 David Cameron's resignation after Britain voted to leave the EU has sparked speculation about the country's next Prime Minister. Former London mayor Boris Johnson is the bookies' favourite for being Cameron's successor. In the past the Leave champion has vehemently denied ambitions to become Prime Minister saying the likelihood of him leading the country is “about as [...]
Former chancellor Ken Clarke says Conservative leadership contest has left governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney to deal with aftermath July 5, 2016 A Tory grandee has warned that the nature of the race to replace David Cameron has left the governor of the Bank of England to deal with the fallout of the Brexit vote. Former chancellor Ken Clarke said that Mark Carney had been "left in charge of the shop" due to Cameron's decision to stand [...]
George Osborne ditches plans to run budget surplus July 1, 2016 George Osborne has signalled he is ready to drop his target to balance the books by the end of the decade as he pointed to severe economic uncertainty in the aftermath of the EU referendum. Speaking in Manchester, the chancellor said he needed to be "realistic" about the chances of meeting his self-imposed target to [...]
Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race – leaving Theresa May odds-on to become next Tory leader June 30, 2016 Boris Johnson has announced he will not seek the Tory leadership, after weeks of speculation that the former London mayor was hoping to become the next Prime Minister. "Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in parliament I have concluded that [the next Conservative leader] cannot be me," he said in a speech at [...]
Boris Johnson denies Leavers were motivated by immigration and says the UK will maintain access to the single market June 27, 2016 Boris Johnson wants to keep the UK's access to the single market and does not believe concerns about immigration played a defining role in the vote to leave the EU. The former mayor of London and chief Brexit campaigner set out his stall in his weekly column in The Telegraph this morning, in the first [...]
Let Nicola Sturgeon have her referendum – and find out that a Hard Brexit is better than a Hard Independence October 17, 2016 It could not have been staged better. Like a general on the battlefield making a final appeal to her troops, Nicola Sturgeon’s use of the SNP’s annual conference to announce the publication of a draft bill to pave the way for Indy Ref Two could not be matched. The legions cheered, ready to go over the top [...]
Theresa May under Brexit pressure ahead of Conservative Party conference October 1, 2016 Westminster watchers are again decamping for a few days of agenda-setting speeches, hard-hitting policy debates, backroom lobbying and late night parties as the Conservative Party conference kicks off in Birmingham tomorrow. Despite the raft of pre-conference announcements, including a new review into employment law and the ditching of some mandatory medical tests for people deemed [...]
EU referendum: Boris and Gove attack Cameron in open letter on immigration May 29, 2016 Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have centred the Brexit debate on immigration this morning by slamming Prime Minister David Cameron's record on net migration in a letter to the Sunday Times. Shifting the spotlight from economists, who have generally sided with the 'Remain' camp thus far, Johnson and Gove said Cameron's failure to curb net migration, a manifesto [...]
Sick of the scaremongering? It’s not over yet! Tony Blair just compared Brexit to World War Two May 29, 2016 Just when you thought there couldn't be any more hyperbole in the Brexit debate, Tony Blair has added his voice to the chorus, comparing a British exit from the European Union to World War Two. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show this morning, Blair said: "This is the most important decision we are going to make [...]