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But this trip is also a desperately needed chance to project authority. </p><p>Like it or not, in politics the images that voters see matter, and matter a lot. So leaders often invest a lot in the art of looking important. </p><p>Whether taking part in a particular local ritual, inspecting the troops, gripping and grinning as another diplomatic handshake is documented for posterity.</p><p>No 10's hopes for the next few days range beyond peace and quiet without mobile phone signal on the plane. Aides to Theresa May might well enjoy that part too. </p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42867852" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">Foreign adventures cannot obscure May's Brexit backdrop</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42827278" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">Tories' Brexit agonies resurface</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li class="mini-info-list__item"> <div class="date date--v2" data-seconds="1516930827" data-datetime="26 January 2018">26 January 2018</div> </li> <li class="mini-info-list__item mini-info-list__item--section"><span class="mini-info-list__section-desc off-screen">From the section </span><a 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intentionally to display just how divided they are over Brexit and how generally twitchy they are, they could hardly have done a better job. </p><p>Not in off-the-cuff remarks but in scripted comments, one of the most convinced Brexit "softies" in the Cabinet, the chancellor himself, told delegates in Davos that he believed, hopefully, that the changes between the EU and UK economies would be "very modest", as we leave the European bloc.</p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42827278" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">Tories' Brexit agonies resurface</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42807561" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">What will Brexit 2.0 mean for UK?</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul 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time that Boris Johnson has called for more cash for the NHS.</p><p>Depending on the flavour of your own views, his promise during the referendum of an extra 拢350m for the NHS was either an entirely sensible and publicly appealing promise of how we should spend the EU membership fees that may (eventually) come back to the country after we leave, or a classic piece of political sleight of hand. </p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42783586" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">Why is Boris Johnson calling for more NHS cash?</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42643674" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">Time for an answer on the NHS?</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li 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</figure><p>There are some things that are more or less unsayable in politics, at least for people who want to win elections. </p><p>For many years, any serious conversations about big changes to the NHS or its principles have been on that list. But with the service creaking, individual horror stories emerging during this winter's period of pressure, the chorus of "something must be done" is growing louder. </p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42643674" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">Time for an answer on the NHS?</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42625479" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">The reshuffle: Who really gained?</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li class="mini-info-list__item"> <div class="date date--v2" data-seconds="1515536652" data-datetime="9 January 2018">9 January 2018</div> </li> <li class="mini-info-list__item mini-info-list__item--section"><span class="mini-info-list__section-desc 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Downing Street</span> </span> </figure><p>Day two arguably went better for the prime minister than day one. She is able to claim, as planned, to have upped the numbers of women in government and new ministers from ethnic minorities. </p><p>The talk in Downing Street is of a new "talent pipeline", the jargon for bringing on a new generation to be ready whenever big jobs available next time round. </p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42625479" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">The reshuffle: Who really gained?</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42616014" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">Was May foiled in reshuffle aims?</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li class="mini-info-list__item"> <div class="date date--v2" data-seconds="1515452481" data-datetime="8 January 2018">8 January 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had mulled over her reshuffle for months. </p><p>On Monday she felt daring enough to do it, after ending the tumult of 2017 with the government in better shape than for quite some time, despite the embarrassing departures of some of her colleagues. </p> </div> <p class="story-body__read-full-article"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42616014" class="story-body__read-full-article-link">Read full article <span class="off-screen">Was May foiled in reshuffle aims?</span></a> </p> </div> <div class="blog__story story-inner"> <a href="/web/20180130080431/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42615003" class="unit__header"> <h2 class="unit__title"><span class="cta">Cabinet reshuffle: What took so long in No 10?</span></h2> </a> <div class="story-body__mini-info-list-and-share"> <ul class="mini-info-list"> <li class="mini-info-list__item"> <div class="date date--v2" data-seconds="1515438698" data-datetime="8 January 2018">8 January 2018</div> </li> <li 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