There are lessons for Sunak and Braverman as they prepare to take on the people smugglers operating from the French coast.
While nobody disagrees with Constitutional recognition, advocates have no convincing case that such groups are under-represented in politics, nor that ordinary legislation could not remedy any grievances.
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have all managed to better implement the centre-right recipe for success, despite being ruled by left-of-centre parties.
Should conservative parties pursue liberal-minded centrist support or compete against far-Right populists for working-class voters?
In the recent state election in Victoria, the party secured swings against Labor in all the wrong places.
The end of August marked 100 days since the Australian Labor Party ended nearly a decade of centre-right government. Temporary popularity obscures an escalating series of gaffes.
Unless republicans can overcome their own divisions, and persuade a politically-cautious nation to embrace change, King Charles III’s grip on his second-largest realm looks secure.
Voters value stability. Our parties have made a national sport of ‘spills’, and been punished at the ballot box.
After nine years in government and three prime ministers, the right gave up on making a positive case – and paid the price at the ballot box.
As Labor and the Coalition struggle to land blows on each other, disenchanted voters are hungry for an alternative.
How its mass insulation scheme went wrong. Plus: let Politics Live thrive, Cummings travel, and ask yourself: why can’t we all just get along?
It is incredible that he has allowed this attack on the Prime Minister’s integrity to be published now – amidst this existential global pandemic crisis.
From the outset, he framed both himself and his government as acknowledging the concerns of everyday Australians. It was a voice that rang with authenticity.
So in short, talk up the country, listen to the ‘somewheres’ outside the Westminster bubble – and cut taxes.
To use Anthony Albanese’s own attack line while he was opposition leader, “everything is going up except wages”.