Greater: Britain After the Storm

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You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. A wave of scandals has corroded public confidence in leadership in all walks of life, fuelled by a hyper-individualistic social media landscape – but by rebuilding public trust we can restore national pride and positive, competent politics. Greater lays out a plan for post-Brexit Britain. Delving into our history, our institutions and our culture, it explains how we arrived at this point and how the British character points the way towards practical national missions. It explores Britain's role in the world and how to balance global and local priorities; makes the case for the United Kingdom based on the mutuality that binds us; and calls for modernising reform in politics, government and markets.

Andrews, Kieran. "Penny Mordaunt is favourite for the Scottish Tory vote". The Times. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022 . Retrieved 10 July 2022.Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee – Fact Sheet" (PDF). GOV.UK. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2020 . Retrieved 7 December 2020. Where the book starts to go awry is the next step: a discussion on how to lead and where. The authors want a plan, even though early on they proclaim that “plans are useless, but planning is important”. And yet they say it’s “very British” to have no plan, an observation perhaps intended to tease; the paradox of how planning can be important while any resulting plan is useless is never explained. Although the book implies a belief in the enabling rather than the interventionist state, it is never explicit who or what would do the planning. Following Johnson's announcement in July 2022 that he would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, Mordaunt entered the leadership contest to succeed him, but was eliminated in the final round of voting among Conservative MPs and subsequently endorsed Truss. Mordaunt was appointed as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council when Truss became Prime Minister. Following Truss's resignation on 20 October 2022, Mordaunt made a second bid to become Conservative leader and Prime Minister. She pulled out of the election after being unable to gain the necessary endorsement of 100 MPs, allowing Sunak to become Conservative Leader and Prime Minister unopposed. Sunak later retained Mordaunt in his cabinet, continuing as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President, giving her a starring role at the coronation. In June 2020, in response to vandalism of war memorials, Mordaunt stated: "I would like to suggest that for some found guilty of vandalising such memorials they might benefit from some time spent with our service personnel – perhaps at a battle camp. That might give them a new appreciation of just what these people go through for their sakes." [106] Personal life Doherty, Caitlin (12 July 2022). "Footage of Jo Cox removed from Conservative candidate campaign video after family raise concerns". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 17 July 2022 . Retrieved 18 July 2022.

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