Articles tagged Diary:
ConHome Diary: The Loneliness of a Prime Minister & Why She Needs Some Willies
- 4 May 2018
Wednesday’s meeting of the Brexit subcommittee on Brexit could have gone very wrong indeed. If the Prime Minister had tried to force through her unworkable ‘Customs Partnership’ proposal there could have been very serious consequences. If any or all of the ‘four Brexiteers’ ha...
ConHome Diary: The Death of the Political Poster
- 27 Apr 2018
Amber Rudd, in her evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Monday, declared that she was aware of individual cases related to Windrush children, but hadn’t joined the dots and realised that something systemic had gone wrong. I suppose I would gently ask how many cases...
ConHome Diary: The Consequences of Windrush & Spinning the Local Elections
- 20 Apr 2018
Back in 2006 the then Labour Home Secretary John Reid described his own department as “not fit for purpose”. Twelve years on very little seems to have changed. Even after eight years of Tory occupation, six of which were controlled by Theresa May, it is still the department wh...
ConHome Diary: Gang Grooming & Why Theresa May Could Fight the 2022 Election
- 6 Apr 2018
So far this year there have been 51 murders in London. If the rate continues we will have close on 200 murders in 2018 compared to 130 last year. That’s quite an increase. The mayor of London is completely devoid of ideas as to what to do and jerks his knee by blaming police c...
ConHome Diary: The Weasel Words of David Gauke, Theresa's Great Fortnight & Oblivion Beckons for UKIP
- 30 Mar 2018
I’m afraid David Gauke’s weasel excuses for not himself launching a judicial review on the John Worboys case just won’t wash. It should never have been left to two of his victims to have to bring the case, and no amount of wriggling on the part of the Justice Secretary will ch...
ConHome Diary: Fish, Leaks and the Art of Chief Whippery
- 23 Mar 2018
I don’t know the new government chief whip Julian Smith, but if reports from a meeting held this week by him for Scottish Conservative MPs and others on fishing rights, he’s going to have his work cut out if he is to maintain party disciple over the 21 month Brexit transition ...
ConHome Diary: Cometh the Hour Cometh the Woman...
- 16 Mar 2018
On Monday lunchtime, as my parting shot on CNNTalk I said that in her statement responding to the Salisbury nerve agent attack, Theresa May should ask herself one question: “What would Maggie have done?” And then do it. If I’m honest I thought we’d hear a statement full of dip...
ConHome Diary: Some Advice for DD, The Rise of Penny Mordaunt & Henry Boltonski
- 9 Mar 2018
Henry Bolton announced on Wednesday that he was starting a new political party called ONE NATION. Better than EIN VOLK, I suppose. It was a pretty amateurish start, given that his logo was low res, the ‘1’ inside the ‘O’ in ‘One’ was off centre and the website was unsearchable...
ConHome Diary: It's the Way Theresa May Tells Them! Boom Boom!
- 2 Mar 2018
I had to smile when John Major said there should be a free vote on the Brexit deal. As an ex Whip himself, and someone used to the black arts of the genre, he knows full well that no government could allow a free vote on an issue of this constitutional magnitude. This is no is...
ConHome Diary: Misleading Remainers, Taking on the Halal/Kosher Lobby & the Joys of Being James Cleverly
- 23 Feb 2018
Balanced broadcasting is all about offending people equally, so this week I furthered that cause by offending both muslims and jews. Twice. On successive days I did phone-ins on whether Iceland is right to ban male circumcision and then whether Halal and Kosher animal slaughte...