Farage has given the Conservatives an opportunity and they have to seize it hard and fast
Giles Dilnot
Reform on the back foot, Burnham selling mood music with no money. A Conference coming where Farage’s was partially derailed, and a Budget to respond to in short order. Yes it has to still be about Badenoch but she’s got to get the brand back together. This autumn is the test they all have to pass – not just her.
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Reform have a professionalism problem
Oliver Dean
Farage has spent years telling us that Britain is broken, pointing the finger at a whole host of problems. He may well be right in some of what he diagnoses, but if he wants to be the man who fixes it, he is going to have to prove that he can run something first.
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Imagine if Russia attacked Britain tomorrow morning
Matthew Jeffery
Wars do not always begin because somebody wanted one. Sometimes somebody simply makes one mistake too many. And if Putin does that and we’d always expect our nation to respond to protect us what looks like a budget decision in Whitehall today could cost British lives tomorrow.
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We have to get out of this high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop
Liam Halligan
More and more economists now warn of fiscal meltdown – not least because trade unions and economically-illiterate Labour MPs and activists, having installed Andy Burnham in Downing Street, are pushing for borrowing and spending to increase further still.
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My Manifesto for London – for Cleverly – but for a contest
Tony Devenish
While I am supporting James Cleverly as our candidate for Mayor, Conservatives do not believe in coronations.
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Lord Ashcroft
My latest poll looks in detail at the characters of the main parties and their leaders, whether people’s front doors are open, ajar or closed to each one, what they think of Number 10 North, the pensions triple lock, what they expect in next month’s Budget and whether they think Andy Burnham will try to rejoin the EU.
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Football’s financial rules protect a cartel – Britain should set its greatest sporting asset free
Stuart Carroll
Britain has extraordinary cultural intellectual property, but an oddly British tendency to regulate, apologise for or undersell it rather than fervently export it. Tear down the financial drawbridge. Set English football free.
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At last – we are a Conservative party in name and nature
James Esses
I am an economic and cultural conservative. I would not be sitting as a Conservative Councillor, nor putting myself forward to stand as a Conservative MP, if I did not believe that conservatism was once again at the heart of the party. Finally, at long last, the Conservative Party is an aptronym: conservative in name and conservative in nature.
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Mountain to climb, but with three parties, single digits apart – 2029 is genuinely ours to win
Stewart Harper
Renewal after a defeat this heavy is slow but the conditions for a genuine Conservative recovery are now in place: a leader whose personal ratings are improving steadily, an organisation rebuilt from the ground up, a clear and distinctive offer, and two opponents whose own coalitions are visibly fragile.
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The Climate Change Act is cooking the carbon books and damaging Britain – it’s got to go
Andrew Bowie
Instead, we should prioritise cheap power. Strengthen our industrial base. Drill for Oil and Gas in the North Sea, build more nuclear, and cut bills for homes and businesses. A Conservative solution offering cheaper power, re-industrialising Britain, protecting nature, cutting emissions and growing the economy