Bright's Blog: David Davis Affair

One of the first messages I received after David Davis resigned from the Conservative front bench was from an old friend on the left. We marched together in the 1980s, shook buckets for miners and hoped against hope for a Neil Kinnock premiership. My friend is now a senior lecturer in politics at a university near Davis's Haltemprice and Howden constituency. "Completely bizarre," he wrote. "Think I ought to canvass ... read more

As I said in my column this week: why has no senior Labour politician resigned over 42 days as a matter of principle? Now David Davis has done the decent thing and demonstrated what it is to be a conviction politician.

Davis always claimed that opposition to 42 days was not a matter of political positioning but something he passionately believes in. I have always bought this. On the ... read more