Unfortunately it looks as if the Party has returned to the ‘feast and famine’ approach to staffing, which prevents the long-term development of expertise.
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
There are a mass of these voters in the Red Wall seats that collapsed last week, but no party has yet made a convincing policy offer to them.
There will be a mass of new Conservative MPs who have no or little presence on the ground to support them.
The political difference from Liverpool, and thus the political and civic one, is startling once one begins to probe majorities.
In government under Cameron, Francis Maude and his SpAds helped to make a difference. Time to call in Baroness Finn to hold a review.
There are three main issues for us. The HE/FE balance, making all students welcome on campus and the Conservatives’ own internal housekeeping.
Leaving the EU will see new opportunities and challenges for the United Kingdom as a whole – and the Party needs to fight back in Scotland.
Winning more support means looking to the Party’s right as well as its left – to use crude but efficient terms.
It is harder to take out a library book or collect a parcel at a post office than it is to vote in someone else’s name.
Johnson will be able to call on the advice and views of the Party’s own Muslim MPs, who now include Saqib Bhatti and Imran Ahmad-Khan.
There is a separate-but-related debate on whether the number of seats should also be reduced.