Does the mainstream media have it out for Reform UK?
Oliver Dean
Reform are not the victims of some big, mainstream media stitch up. They are the victims of their own incompetence. They continue to prance around, begging to be taken seriously as a political party, boasting of how they will flood the green benches of House of Commons with their MPs come the next election, yet simultaneously despise anyone who dares ask how they intend to do that.
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Never mind the mid-terms – Trump as POTUS has lost any potency here
Giles Dilnot
Trump has abandoned Ukraine in order to try and claw back some mid-term electoral traction. He’s stuffed many an economy with his failure to prosecute properly another war with Iran that he was over confident would be over in days not months. Putin thought the same in Ukraine, and should pay for that mistake.
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How can the Conservatives oppose Burnham’s Rejoin agenda without being derailed by it?
Peter Franklin
Kemi Badenoch, Andrew Griffith and Tom Tugendhat don’t need to bang on about Europe to show us the real Europe. To do so — clearly, calmly and non-obsessively — is all the contribution they need to make.
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We talk about million-pound inheritances while working Britain counts the pennies
Matthew Jeffery
We spent years persuading voters in Red Wall constituencies that Conservatism offered them a ladder. Now we risk looking like we’re more interested in protecting inheritances at the top than helping people climb up from the bottom. We must become the party of the pay packet, not the inheritance.
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Scottish independence is a mistake
John Redwood
The UK government keeps applying the medicine of devolution to an illness which is made worse by that treatment. No wonder the rows go on and on with no resolution possible. The SNP and Labour look like two bald men arguing over a comb.
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Will the French riots spread to Britain?
Miriam Cates
Many are wondering if the recent French riots will spread to the UK, as they did to Belgium and Italy. It is not the first time the British authorities have asked such a question.
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Outer London boroughs are losing autonomy while their obligations keep growing
Peter Zinkin
The new funding formula assumes every council charges a notional Band D of £2,060. Barnet charges £438 less, but grant is calculated as if the difference were being collected.
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David Thompson wins in Maidstone and Malling to become the new Conservative Candidate
Matthew Jeffery
Maidstone and Malling is a constituency the Conservatives cannot afford to take for granted. Helen Grant retained the seat in 2024 with a majority of just 1,674 and the political landscape has changed considerably since then.
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Henry Dumont
The legacy of a Prime Minister Badenoch will rest on policy, not personal popularity while in opposition. I hope for the good of the country she can put her serious face on, and please, Mrs Badenoch, stop trying to be my friend.
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The Gambling Commission is out of control and has become ‘a bad bet’
Peter Bedford
The Gambling Commission is out of control and failing in its primary purpose. It is strangling the licenced industry and sending gambling underground. It is time for major regulatory reform.