Now Liz Truss has resigned after trashing the economy, it’s important that we keep holding onto the fact that this isn’t – and shouldn’t be – normal or acceptable. Politics can be exciting - a robust exchange of radical ideas – but it should be dull as anything in constitutional terms. Ours and others’ confidence in how our state and our country functions rests on that. It’s what the markets respond to – and it’s why they’ve gone so wild over the last three weeks.
Read MoreDifficult Month Ahead For Esher And Walton Commuters. A month of planned railway strikes through December is an unwelcome early Christmas present for the commuters and residents of Esher and Walton.
Read MoreFarage takes credit for the terrible Tory manifesto
Read MoreBoris Johnson has finally achieved his life’s ambition. The votes of just 160,000 Tory Party members (that’s less than 0.3% of the UK’s electorate) have secured for him the keys to Number 10. And with the keys, the Brexit mess he and his fellow hardline Brexiteers have created: a divided country, an imploding party and a dangerously uncertain future for Britain in Europe, and in the world. Boris Johnson has come full circle - he created the Brexit shambles, now it is time for him to own it.
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