ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Labour gained a Staffordshire County Council seat from the Conservatives. Labour also gained two Staffordshire Moorlands District Council seats – one from the Conservatives and another from an independent.
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Germany has come closer to managing it – but take a look at the bill: an average of £71 billion between 1990 and 2014. That’s a little more than the £2 billion Sunak was sharing out yesterday.
As it never attracted as much ire as Iraq we may never see a proper inquiry into a decades-long, £27.7 billion failure.
But with a nuanced approach, the Tories can address areas of concern without alienating a vital, more liberal-minded part of their electoral coalition.
I favour a unitary system – combining a suitable number of current districts and boroughs, handing down county council powers, with a combined authority led by a directly elected Mayor.
The language of personal responsibility is common in Conservative rhetoric, but in policy terms they may as well just quote Job: “Here thou shalt come, but no further.”
Committed efforts to bring full equality to the House of Commons are not reflected in the House of Lords
They didn’t get a surge when the UK Internal Market Act passed and saw only a temporary one after their Supreme Court defeat. What about now?
Should conservative parties pursue liberal-minded centrist support or compete against far-Right populists for working-class voters?
An outline of détente should be accompanied by tougher measures against the hardline regime itself. Classifying the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation is an obvious first step.
It is absurd for the UK to lecture nations with much stronger environmental records whilst using creative accounting to flatter our own CO2 emissions.
I’m seeking the nomination for one of our new constituencies with a programme of liberalisation concerning cross-Solent travel, economic regeneration, and diversification.
Regardless of how the climate is changing, and to what extent, our attitude toward defending the most vulnerable Christians in the most hostile environments in the world cannot.