I believe in second chances – but not for former neo-Nazis
Oliver Dean
Again, I reiterate that I am all for second chances. But there comes a point in which one cannot extend the generosity of yet another attempt. Bonehill-Paine – I believe -, despite what he has done since being released, crossed that point of no return
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A “cross-party consensus” on social care? Watch out for your wallet.
Harry Phibbs
Why should the state usurp the role of the family? The UK have three times as many old people in residential care as Poland.
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Farage is simultaneously Reform’s greatest asset and its greatest liability
Andrew Gimson
His plan to stop the boats by sending the Royal Marines onto French beaches fell apart as soon as he had announced it.
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Blocking Grant Shapps is a mistake
Andrew Gilligan
But it’s true that Shapps has in the past been an organiser. He was Boris’s numbers man, and strikingly good at it too. He could have used those skills for Badenoch as he did for Johnson.
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Chase only Reform’s voters and you write off half of your own recovery
Ruth Davidson
The party has the biggest pool of winnable voters in the country. And what it does with that comes down to one decision. Make an offer to all of those voters, or spend three years wrestling Nigel Farage for half of them.
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Conservatives and the problem of social care
David Willetts
Faced with actually paying for social care properly through a charge on our estates or a levy or instead saving money and going for cheap labour we have chosen the latter.
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James Ford
A strong, self-assured candidate would lead with their vision for the capital, float an ambitious policy agenda, or talk about how their experience qualifies them for the role.
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Britain is failing its Jews. I know where this hatred leads
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
The Government, police, universities and political parties must stop treating this as a passing controversy. Those who threaten Jews or attack Jewish institutions must face serious consequences, and the ideologies feeding that hatred must be named honestly.
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David Gauke doesn’t understand leadership
Ashley Bower-Dyke
That is exactly what she is doing. Like any good engineer, she has identified the fault, diagnosed the cause and started fixing the problem. And that is not a purge. It is leadership.
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‘He might be hopeless, but he seems genuine.’ My focus groups on the early days of Andy Burnham
Lord Ashcroft
Even so, the groups largely had the impression that Burnham had a plan for government, even if the details were yet to emerge. This in itself was a contrast with the Starmer years.