Bevan’s cry that the Tories want to demolish the NHS was not heard on Friday when new private diagnostic centres were announced.
We give you divorce reform, abortion law in Northern Ireland, citizenship rights for three million Hong Kongers, and the rainbow flag.
We need to switch from specifying “what’s allowed to open” to “what in the interest of public health needs to continue to be restricted.”
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
History shows that One Nation Conservatism, once espoused by Powell and Macleod, need not be wet.
How a unique combination of Heath and Powell saw the Tories swept to power from Sheffield to Lambeth.
He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.
Conservatives have a proud record of social reform. I want to break down the barriers to people escaping poverty.
The Electoral Reform Society calculates that a tiny change in votes would have given May a bare majority last spring. But how much difference would this have made?
None the less, the local Conservatives exploited the climate of prejudice, while Labour sometimes bent to accommodate it.
The Tory campaign in 1966 was not a success, but neither was it a complete failure. Heath’s warnings of economic troubles ahead were vindicated as early as July.
The early training that David Cameron and his team received in the Conservative Research Department proved decisive.
Our final pre-election version – complete with the 30 new Tory candidates most likely to make it to the Commons.
By being so unrelentlingly contemptuous about the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister is corrupting his own brand.
He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.