This is the core DOGE strategy: deploy aligned personnel, map money flows, expose entrenched networks, restructure everything before opposition can react.
After 14 years in government, the state has grown ever bigger, ever more expensive, and ever more ungovernable, whilst growth has proved ever elusive. Our social contract is defunct.
As Housing Secretary, his White Paper on planning would have delivered a Conservative home-ownership project of a scale not seen since Macmillan.
It may feel good to decry Donald Trump, but – unbelievably – it must be pointed out that Britain is not America. It does no good to pretend that we are trying to solve the problem we’d like to have instead of the problems we actually do.
If migration was our biggest failure, who can be better placed to restore trust than the only immigration minister in 14 years to successfully reduce it?
To someone like me – who is somewhat interested in the survival of the Conservative Party – the answer some are offering to solve this country’s decades-long rightwards surge is staggering.
For too long, politicians have taken the politically easy decision campaign against building homes, even perfectly suitable ones, on the principle – if it can be labelled as such – of securing votes from NIMBYs.
That is why Robert Jenrick’s amendment to the Justice and Crime Bill, mandating the reporting of statistics on the nationality and visa or asylum status of offenders, is a welcome step
Despite 13 years of promises to get immigration under control, numbers have continued to rise and, last year, inward migration into the UK reached 1.2 million.
Perhaps are finally waking up to the fact that our economic model, relying on government subsidy to provide cheap human capital and debased wages, has only provided the illusion of prosperity.
As long as the PopCons remain a vehicle for libertarianism, they won’t be able to offer anything more useful than politically toothless gestures against left-liberalism.
They have grown up in a cultural milieu that denigrates Britain’s culture and history to the point that the idea it is even worthy of respect – never mind dying for – is ridiculous.
If JSO’s house style prevents us engaging with the meaningful questions of how we best combat change without a decline in living standards, then their main contribution to the debate is lowering the quality.
Conservatives have to recognise that much of this failure arises from our failure to tackle government by quango and New Labour’s political settlement.
Not only does this legislation lack adequate safeguards for our society’s most vulnerable, but it also could allow for an unjustifiable delegation of power to Government ministers, setting a troubling precedent.