Articles tagged Graham Brady:
Here are the Three Timetables for a Tory Party Leadership Contest
- 18 May 2019
This week Theresa May agreed with the 1922 Committee Executive that she would address the leadership question with Sir Graham Brady immediately after the Withdrawal Agreement vote. Everyone has interpreted this as her signalling she would then step down, given the likely resul...
Telegraph Column: Four Ways to Oust a Prime Minister
- 24 Mar 2019
This article originally appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. Theresa May has survived crisis after crisis and clings to office like a limpet. This time, though, it is difficult to see any scenario in which she survives as prime minister. When you reportedly lose the confidence...
Could Theresa May Call a 'Put Up or Shut Up' Vote of Confidence In Herself?
- 17 Sep 2018
I wonder whether Theresa May is considering doing a John Major. OK, it wouldn’t be the first time, I hear you snigger at the back. Could she be considering calling a ‘put up or shut up’ vote of confidence in her time. It would be done on the basis that the ‘leadership issue’ b...
Guardian Column: The Brady Resignation Should Never Have Been Allowed to Happen
- 30 May 2007
If you believed the spin George Osborne’s speech today on the battle for public service reform was only about the Cameron Conservatives being the supposed ‘heir to Blair’. It wasn’t. It was far more than that. The trouble is that few Tory supporters or members will ever read i...
Telegraph Column: The Grammar School Fiasco
- 24 May 2007
Successful politicians are not only able to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear but can also take advantage of unexpected opportunities which come their way. And so it has proved with the Great Grammar School farrago which has dominated the last week of Tory politics. ...
The Great Grammar School Debate
- 16 May 2007
I'm touched by the number of people who have been leaving comments on the blog awaiting my views on grammar schools! Well, here goes. This is an argument we didn't need to have. Instead of attacking the concept of grammar schools we should be encouraging diversity in educat...