Polls very strongly suggest the public are much more irritated with the police not enforcing basic rules with greater severity.
This is a good moment for targeted, well-justified interventions, but creating lots of new losers through sweeping hikes would be insane.
The Prime Minister’s Leave campaign promised that things would be better when we left the EU. So he must therefore prove it.
The Government can do a lot in a short space of time. A key question should be: how do we make these towns nicer places to live?
There is no reason a green agenda can’t be a winner in the Red Wall, but not if it’s just the usual bundle of middle-class concerns.
If they can’t make a real impact on the lives of working class voters in provincial seats, Johnson will meet the same electoral fate as Trump.
There will be real anger about the prospect of a digital winter break – unless there’s a very serious surge in deaths.
I will be returning regularly to this theme: the need to create a mainstream English and Welsh majority from shore to shore.
Forget the polls. Be honest about risk. Understand the English. Use scientists less. Deploy Sunak more. Drop the technical language and work with others.
They don’t talk about politics in daily life; don’t write to local or national newspapers; most importantly, they’re not politically active online.
Voters will support a balanced narrative about Britain’s past in our schools, but they will want children to feel mostly pride in our past.
Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.
It’s not only a matter of highly-skilled jobs for working class people. Firms like these gives cities like Derby a sense of immense civic pride.