In Copeland, where Theresa May hailed what she called the Conservatives’ “astounding” victory, Labour’s recriminations are only just beginning.
Jon Snow
Our unwritten constitution has been tested more in the past six months than at any other time in the past 60 years. It may be time, in this brave new world, to write down what some of these rules are.
Gary Gibbon
The Government has minimised a Tory rebellion by offering Parliament a final vote on the Brexit deal. But MPs would have to choose between the deal – or no deal. The government has fought off the most dangerous of amendments to the Article 50 Bill by a majority of 33. That number, they hope, will subdue the…
Zainab Chaudry, from the Council of American Islamic Relations, and Star Parker, a conservative columnist and founder of the Centre of Urban Renewal.
Leader of Surrey County Council David Hodge on the revolt in Surrey.
Conservative MP and former health minister Dan Poulter, who still works as a doctor in the NHS.
The Government continues to deny it’s a crisis, but new figures from the health service information centre, NHS Digital, show that the number of elderly people waiting for more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England has more than doubled in the last two years.
Gary Gibbon
No. 10 this morning emphasised that the problems in social care provision weren’t just about money. Theresa May will have hated the idea of throwing money at the problem.
As he steps down as head of Ofsted, Cathy Newman has been speaking to Sir Michael Wilshaw.
The Liberal Democrats claim they’re “closing the gap” on sitting MP Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond by-election. The former Conservative MP triggered the vote over his opposition to the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans.
Pro-Brexit Tories have rounded on Sir John Major for suggesting a second referendum on Britain’s departure from the EU would be perfectly credible.The former PM said the Brexit process shouldn’t be subjected to the “tyranny of the majority”, sparking anger among Eurosceptics.
Victoria Macdonald
The Autumn Statement contained not one penny more for the NHS or social care services. There are real fears about how they will cope.
Gary Gibbon
The struggling families at the heart of Theresa May’s mission statement got very little out of today. The revolution has been postponed.
Interview with former John Lewis boss Andy Street, who’s now Conservative candidate for West Midlands mayor.
Gary Gibbon
Some EU figures don’t expect to see much more of Theresa May’s hand than is already known even when the Article 50 moment comes.