The key goal of the government is to placate the right by sustaining foreign quarrels.

No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.

This summer has provided ample demonstration of the difficulties of the relationship between the UK and the EU.

'I keep hearing my fellow unionists complaining that their anger over the existence of the Northern Ireland Protocol is not being recognised or taken seriously.'

Boris Johnson’s rotten regime has not covered itself in glory. / For an un-jaundiced sense of how post-Brexit – sorry Global – Britain is viewed from abroad as the wheels fall off Boris Johnson’s rotten regime, Italy is a good place to start.