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CABINET Office Minister David Lidington made a desperate plea yesterday for his warring fellow Conservatives to “come together” after a week of infighting.
He used a Sunday morning television interview to rally the Tory troops with a message of unity and common purpose, saying the party must “come together … and look at what the bigger picture is showing.
“The bigger picture that we are still neck and neck with the Labour Party in the polls,” he said.
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
The present drive to war is a cynical and deliberate diversion from deteriorating living standards, argues MATT KERR
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership