If Conservatism is to mean anything, it must end dependency and restore Britain as a nation of enterprise and aspiration.
While our national discourse drowns in identity squabbles, foreign wars and grievance politics, the very foundation of liberty – the right to own, to build, to pass something on – is being torn apart beneath us. If Reeves succeeds, freehold itself becomes a relic.
Britain has sleepwalked into a world it has not prepared for. The Iran conflict did not create our vulnerabilities. It revealed them.