The weak and stable reshuffle

The weak and stable reshuffle

As the sun sets on the latest Cabinet reshuffle, it’s difficult  to describe the last 48 hours as anything other than pretty inauspicious ones for Downing Street, for the minority Conservative government, and for Theresa May’s premiership. The national press has been...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Come in Mr Davis, your time is up We might have just got through the festive period but, if rumours out of Brussels are true, then David Davis could be forgiven for not extending ‘goodwill to all men’ to Oliver Robbins. It was (rather strongly) suggested over...
Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit weekly: 5 things

Brexit purgatory The medieval Catholic Church used to be big on the concept of purgatory. It was the stage between heaven and hell that you resided in at the culmination of your own personal Article 50 process (i.e. when you’d died). How long you’d be in purgatory...