That ultimately depends upon three key hurdles – The first relates to the structure of the party. The second is the question of a functional shadow cabinet. The third is the cohesive policy. Currently those three variables still need to be resolved.
The party needs operatives fired up to cure our nation’s ailments, rather than spokesmen for managed decline. It needs more from its candidates that simple proof of life; it needs proof of fire.
Evolving into this necessary party of radical Conservatism requires Conservatives first to be duly chastened by their own immense past failures. When in power, they balked at surgically removing the very problems others are now slashing at with machetes.
The logic train at the end of his last ConHome column is, I’m afraid, showing the same level of strain as my car engine the other night on the motorway just before it packed in.
There still remains enough time to leave a genuine and defining legacy, that frames where the next government is heading, and reaffirms that Conservatism truly does seek to make people’s lives better.
Glory marches elsewhere alongside great successes, but true honour lies in the thankless fights.
EU regulations and directives do form a major block of domestic law and do generate a lot of business costs. We know this because Whitehall’s own past internal audits have revealed it, a field I have been tracking since John Major’s day.
Sitting back and playing safe didn’t save John Major, and it certainly won’t deliver a majority for Rishi Sunak.
The purpose of the BM is not to engage in social engineering. It is “to hold for the benefit and education of humanity a collection representative of world cultures, and ensure that the collection is housed in safety, conserved, curated, researched and exhibited”.
Any move to grab more powers next year is going to end badly for politicians in Brussels.
Kids Count has just launched an important new audit, which is the precursor to a much larger study into knife crime reviewing cause and effect.
Look at what he says, whom he idolises and the ideology that runs through his movement, and it’s a troubling picture.
Whitehall’s touted model is inherently flawed. It was ruled out during the referendum and by the Conservative manifesto.
Labour will promise the world but will deliver trinkets. There is no hope for salvation except in ourselves. Keir Starmer is as credible a reformer as John Wayne was playing Genghis Khan.