Officials need to level with the public. Clean Power 2030 is wasteful, expensive, and could have lasting negative effects on Britain’s grid. We cannot continue to put Net Zero ideology over economic realities.
Welfare excess is only one symptom of a state swollen beyond recognition. Few politicians have had the stomach to confront it. Instead, taxpayers are subjected to ever more creative levies.
Kemi went into conference looking weak and lacking substance. She left with much of the membership reassured about her conservative values and behind her. Stamp duty was the red meat that the Tory faithful were hoping to see in Manchester.
To sideline local councils is to leave whole communities ignored by the government, which will only fuel further social disorder.
What Britain needs, more than ever, is a party willing to face hard truths over our economic conditions.
Previous reports have pinned the blame on institutions rather than the people within them. Real justice should always be about confronting uncomfortable truths, not just glossing over them.
His is not the behaviour of a leader confident in his mandate, but of one terrified of comparison.