Professor Tim Bale writes for The Times for the Red Box Comment section about the Conservative party: “The first thing the Tory manifesto wants to make clear is that our departure from the European Union will be ‘smooth and orderly’. No surprise, there: Mrs May, who likes to hammer things home, has been making that very same point since delivering her Lancaster House speech, which, like her letter to Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and the Great Repeal Bill, is cited in the manifesto, although it’s difficult to imagine the average reader (who definitely won’t be the average voter, mind) racing to read them all to get up to speed.”More »Also featured in Bloomberg