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If you are still looking, it is this article:
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Although unclear if the "plan" was supposed to come from the civil service or from elsewhere in the Labour Party.
2025 will be a political shootout. Which leader has most to fear?
This country may not be big enough for both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch — but danger still lurks around every corner for Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I also find it hard to reconcile Kruger's desire to restore cabinet government with the Farage & Yusuf position that the cabinet will be appointed from outside figures, not from MPs.

Surely a coincidence these would have little political authority and pose no challenge to the party leader.
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I always enjoy the Gerald Ford quote about Watergate "...a government of laws and not of men" - it's a great quote, but so fundamentally self-deluding!
January 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
As someone who lives and works in Uzbekistan you must say where it was! I will add it to the list of weird and wonderful stories about the place.
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM
You and Lord Salisbury! Our first (and only) Marxist prime minister...
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I can't tell if this is an invitation to debate or a challenge to a duel.
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Problem is the Tory party's main lesson from Thatcher is to adopt the certainty - not the work ethic.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Very fair. I was thinking more in terms of reforming the state than electoral politics. And I think Peel's record as a practical reformer is at least as good as Gladstone's (But I am more familiar with the details of Peel's career than Gladstone's there.)
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The correct answer is of course Sir Robert Peel!
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yes, good points - I think there are counterpoints to them which I find persuasive. But as my view is "gold plated bullshit" it doesn't sound like you are up for a discussion on this one so I will leave it there!
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ah I see. I think over the last 200-odd years 1 and 2 probably are right! Or at least I agree more than I disagree with them.

I don't think this is about Corbyn or Johnson though. Henry Fairlie was writing in the 1950s that the constitution would break down if MPs didn't have the key choice in PM.
October 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What view and what description? This sounds interesting but I'm not sure what you mean.
October 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The standard Tory position on constitutional reform has always been 'is this in my interests or not'. In this respect, he is very much in lne with the last 200 years...
September 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Especially when you consider erosion of those salaries by inflation. I think I saw something recently that if the PM's salary had kept up with inflation since 2008 it would now be roughly double at about £300,000?
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
She has a very impressive career. I don't know what her economic views are. Could you make a guess at how she may end up advising the PM economically?
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another reason the Fraser Nelson view that 'Farage is a bulwark against the far-right' is frankly baffling.
July 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM