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TWICE-SACKED ex-Blairite minister Peter Mandelson orders ministers complaining of non-access to government papers, by dint of favouring Britain’s exit from the EU, to stop whinging.
In his view, they are lucky not to have been sacked for going against ministerial collective responsibility.
He must know that, when Harold Wilson was Labour prime minister during the only other referendum on membership of what was then the European Economic Community (EEC), ministers campaigning to withdraw were not penalised for their choice.
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY