As Sajid Javid flew to Australia this week, he might have been forgiven for thinking he could leave all the turmoil over the EU referendum behind him.
But after travelling more than 10,000 miles, the business secretary found himself buttonholed by Australian conservatives over his suprise support for Britain staying in the EU.
As you read this, Sajid Javid , the business secretary, is on a plane back from Australia after being ordered by the prime minister - who was on holidaying in Lanzarote - to return to Britain and face the music over the crisis engulfing the steel industry.
Many are questioning why Javid even chose to travel half way around the world for a trade visit on the day that Tata bosses met in Mumbai to decide the fate of its operations in Port Talbot, where 40,000 jobs are now at risk.
There is an option for temporary nationalisation, but the Welsh government simply cannot do this - we have neither the resources or the power, but the UK government has.
Also, if they were willing to bailout the banks, there are strong moral and economic arguments to offer the same kind of support for our steel industry.
Over the past few months online polls have shown the race neck-and-neck, while phone polls have suggested a comfortable margin in favour of 'remain'.
Data analysis, including the report issued yesterday by Matt Singh, has tended to agree on the chief causes of the difference, but not on whether offline or online is nearer to the truth.
On 23rd June the British public will make the biggest decision for a generation: to be a thriving, outward-facing country trading in and shaping the world’s largest free trade single market or to turn inwards, put our economy at risk and play a lesser role on the world stage.
Today, Stronger In will submit its application to be the designated campaign to keep Britain stronger in Europe. Here is an open letter from 36 backers of the group.
Hedgehogs, under threat from traffic, badgers and habitat loss, have a new enemy: Brexiteers. As avid Times readers will already know, this newspaper is a close friend of the hedgehog. We have campaigned to support their preservation through our Times Christmas appeal, and successfully convinced ministers to convene a summit in solidarity with our threatened companions.
But this morning the defenceless spiny mammal was used as a prickly political football by Dominic Raab, the justice minister, to form the centrepiece of his argument for Britain leaving the EU.
The big story overnight was Tata Steel confirming that it is considering plans to leave Britain, putting thousands of jobs in the steel industry at risk.
The Times splash reports that at least 4,000 jobs and the reputation of Wales as the crucible of British steel-working are in jeopardy. The Indian owner of the giant Port Talbot steel mills said that it was examining its options, including the sale of its lossmaking operations, in whole or in part.
One of the big conundrums about the EU referendum campaign so far is why polls differ so widely.
A new report from Populus and the Number Cruncher Politics website suggests that results of telephone polls, where people are called in their homes and asked how they intend to vote, were more accurate than surveys carried out online.
With less than ninety days to go until Britain’s EU referendum the Eurosceptics seem to have reason to cheer. For much of recent history they have languished behind Remain in the opinion polls, often by a wide margin.
But even before the latest terrorist attacks in Brussels the polls are suggesting that at least the race may be tightening. After calculating the average across all polls over the past three months there is evidence to suggest that Remain has lost a little ground: in January it held a 45-41 lead, in February 43-40, and, so far in March, 43-41.
It's been a long-standing dream for many on the left that their various parties stop fighting amongst themselves and finally come together in a big anti-Tory alliance to keep the Conservatives out of power.
It was recently suggested that senior figures in several left wing parties (it did not state which) were considering the possibility of not standing candidates in certain seats in order to try and unseat Conservative MPs. I decided to take a look and see how such a �Progressive Pact’ might be formulated in practice.
There is a future for steel in Wales