Hints and tips:
...The first is that YouGov’s MRP got the 2017 election result close to perfect, at a time when most other polling showed Theresa May winning a landslide majority....
...“It was prompted by [Prime Minister] Theresa May telling a nurse that there wasn’t a magic money tree [for pay rises] and being outraged by it.” There are no vocals, though....
...The Theresa May era, with which the series begins, feels particularly remote, and less characterised by eye-catching scandal than by inaction at the top and revolt from the backbenches....
...Everyone remembers how, in the white heat of the election contest, Theresa May squandered a huge majority in 2017....
...Stories like this bristle throughout Politics on the Edge, Stewart’s brutally frank account of his nine years as an MP under prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May....
...Meanwhile, four former prime ministers — Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson — have urged him to complete the route. “It’s just stubbornness,” said one ministerial aide....
...So in one way, it is a good day for Sunak when David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson all attack his plan to scrap HS2’s northern leg....
...Former UK prime minister Theresa May has praised the Queen’s “incredible understanding of her people” and immense knowledge of world affairs....
...That challenge initially fell to Theresa May, Johnson’s ill-fated predecessor in Number 10....
...s=20&t=bzz2iqwfWdEx7LFva3TFYw “This is our country’s saddest day,” Johnson wrote in a statement....
...Now try this One of my favourite programmes is BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks, which is what I have on in the background when I do the first pass at this newsletter....
...With knockout albums such as 1988’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Chuck and his bandmates spearheaded rap’s spread overseas from its New York base....
...People ask me if this would have happened under Theresa May. Of course not. Nor under David Cameron, Gordon Brown or any other modern prime minister....
...Gabon, Papua New Guinea, Belize, Honduras and Ghana has sought to formalise solutions to these issues by creating their own sovereign carbon credit framework, known as “redd.plus”, in collaboration with S&...
...Her biggest jobs to date have included international development secretary and — briefly — defence secretary under Theresa May....
...“The tax cut plans are affordable within our current fiscal rules, so we would still see debt falling after four years,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...In the aftermath of Theresa May’s Chequers summit, in which she decided to seek a soft Brexit, a host of ministers, MPs and junior bag-carriers quit....
...EPP officials have suggested that the S&D are after more power after Scholz’s win in Berlin but also say that the EPP wants as many groups as possible on board and that includes the S&D, if it is willing...
...He was given a “dressing down” by Theresa May, then prime minister. But he said he had left early and had not witnessed “the horrific events”, which he condemned “unequivocally”....
...Under Theresa May she served as parliamentary under-secretary in the Department for Exiting the European Union but resigned over proposals to introduce a Northern Ireland border backstop....
...He was heavily involved in the “Chuck Chequers” campaign against Theresa May’s Chequers Brexit deal, undermining her leadership and paving the way for Johnson’s victory in 2019....
...Before 2016’s Brexit referendum, immigration caused splitting headaches for mainstream parties....
...Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury) Revelatory and timely look at how understandings of relationships with the natural world have shaped human history from the author of 2015’s...
...Measured against 2018 local elections where Labour did fairly well and Theresa May was still prime minister, the results are not great, but against the 2019 general election defeat the party has made progress...
...We also knew that at some point Theresa May would be replaced as Conservative leader, while Jeremy Corbyn was certain to lead Labour into the next election....
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