"These better reflect who I am"
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"Cut out the middle man"
Getting rid of landlines means you can’t call 999 in a power cut unless you have a mobile. That’s not what I call progress
Continue reading...Replacing things that aren’t broken helps push up GDP, but is absurd. Much like Tory economic policy
Continue reading...The EU’s proposals on the Northern Ireland protocol offered what business leaders wanted, but the prime minister prefers failure and grievance
Last week, Boris Johnson, with his paintbrush and easel at his holiday villa in Marbella, touched up his self-portrait as the reincarnation of Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, another bodysnatcher, Johnson’s Brexit tsar, David Frost, was also in sunny Iberia. In Lisbon on Tuesday evening, he channelled the intellectual father of modern conservatism, the 18th-century Irish writer and politician Edmund Burke.
Frost demanded that the EU agree to rewrite completely the Northern Ireland protocol of the withdrawal treaty that Johnson hailed in October 2019 as a “fantastic deal for all of the UK”. His speech was entitled, in imitation of a famous Burke pamphlet, “Observations on the present state of the nation”.
Continue reading...Now the Conservative Party's reputation for economic competence has cratered, Matthew Gwyther sees businesses getting increasingly politicised
Bankers have contributed a-third of the party’s income over recent months, amid plans to remove the cap on their bonuses, reports Sam Bright