If we’re to convince people the Party itself has changed it must be reflected in every single aspect of our approach. Now unassailable in her leadership, Kemi must be ruthless.
Britain’s legal migration system is full of loopholes that could be exploited by malicious actors seeking access to Britain.
This change to driving tests will not help the genuinely needy, its ambition to fairness is irrelevant, and, the exploitation mentioned is overstated at best to non-existent. Ultimately, price caps don’t work – and a driving test price cap is no different.
If you shut down our means of making fuel, it doesn’t mean we need any less. All it does is make us more reliant on foreign regimes for that very same fuel.
If Conservatives cannot once again become the party of institutional competence, public order, and state capability, the vacuum will simply deepen. At present, no other political forces appear willing to undertake the harder, less glamorous work of rebuilding state authority.
Steel matters, it’s one of the building blocks of a functioning economy, and that is precisely why it can’t be left to Ministers with little experience of the real world and even less of running a business.
The great mistake of elite Britain is to assume every working-class expression of patriotism is merely bigotry with better branding. Sometimes it is ugly and attractive to genuinely nasty people. More often, however, it is something simpler: people wanting to say that Britain is worth loving.
We have shown Reform are beatable; that the break-up of Britain is not inevitable. We did that by ploughing our own furrow, following our own North Star of Conservative common sense.
We have to ensure there is a right wing government after the next election, no matter what that entails. A deal with Reform is essential, and we must accept Conservatives cannot stand in every seat.
The key takeaway from these local elections must surely be that, whilst Reform’s Laila Cunningham now seems certain to fail in her ambition to become Mayor of London, a Conservative candidate could still succeed.
I believe philosophically that government exists primarily to facilitate individual opportunity, and the state should not, and cannot, be involved in our lives to the extent it is. And now it cannot be afforded either.
The battle for the soul of this country will be won when British Jews are able to go about their daily lives without the fear of antisemitic attacks.
The Conservatives and Labour have benefited from an electoral system that delivers large parliamentary majorities with a small slice of the overall vote. But this is changing, and the question for the Tory party is whether it continues defending a model built for a political era that may be ending.
It is time that the conservative movement showed its adaptability once again by understanding that Global Britain and European Britain are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.