Right To Second Guess?

The case for the Windsor Framework is the case for the whole of the United Kingdom to be in the Single Market, but as a kind of vassal state, with little or no say over the content of the legislation. I would certainly vote against it.

But last night, Jacob Rees-Mogg told his viewers that he had to vote against it because the DUP was doing so. How does he still have the Conservative whip? Even now and forever without the Labour whip, you cannot imagine Jeremy Corbyn saying that he had to vote a certain way because Sinn Féin, or the Communist Party, or the Socialist Workers Party, would have been doing so if it had been there.

David Campbell Bannerman has just been on Politics Live as an ordinary Conservative activist. He was a UKIP Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2011 (when he re-joined the Conservatives), Deputy Leader of UKIP from 2006 to 2010, and a candidate for Leader three times.

You are allowed to join the Labour Party with that sort of record if you are a Conservative, or if you have been in Change UK and the Liberal Democrats, but you would stand absolutely no chance from the Left. You can be expelled for liking tweets from people like that on the Left.

But all eyes are on Anna Soubry, who attended David Cameron's Cabinet and who fully intends to attend Keir Starmer's. And you can keep the Conservative whip if you go on television and say that you have to vote a certain way because the DUP says so.