Badenoch insists the Tories aren’t going to walk off the pitch or pivot to the left, but they should avoid looking complacent. Jenrick’s challenge should be met not with tit-for-tat soundbites but treating it as the mother of all ‘red team’ exercises.
We have in this country some staunch ‘defenders’ of free speech, who only deem it free speech when it’s views they agree with. That’s speech, but it isn’t free.
Reform is trying to convince voters it is ready for power. Yet the decision to indulge cranks undermines that message.
It’s the right pitch to carve out a Conservative niche that says ‘you might not want to hear what I have to say, but you’ll always know it’s the truth’.
To break the cycle of waste, the Government must push for external audits of all government departments. Independent auditors, not internal bureaucrats, must be granted the authority to scrutinise spending decisions, flag waste, and hold officials accountable.
When I say Liberal Democrats, what I mean is the faction that call themselves ‘One Nation Tories’
There were some ground rules: The discussion took place without any hyper-tribalism and assumed the circumstances had come about where a discussion might be required. We were honest about our own sides’ weaknesses. All that might be a lot harder to pull off if it were for real.
Lady Rees-Mogg and husband Jacob discuss the new reality show which shows the life of their family, and she admits it was risky to allow a camera crew to follow them for six months.
All the same old, tired formula. Nothing new. Nothing imaginative. Nothing showing any understanding of the catastrophic loss of risk appetite, efficiency, and aspiration in the UK. Einstein’s insanity.
The Conservative Party leadership campaign has been a breath of fresh air. We have seen soul searching, admissions of fault and visions for the future. And each candidate has played an important role in that.
I want our best players outside of Parliament fighting for us. I’d appoint Jacob Rees Mogg Conservative Party chairman, and we would bring back great campaigners like Penny Mordaunt to the frontline.
As MPs prepare for the first round of voting, our deputy editor talks to Jacob Rees-Mogg about the Conservative leadership contest.
In his forthcoming Reality TV show he will take up where Lord Randolph Churchill left off, by expressing “the sublime instincts of an ancient people”.
Lord Roberts is man of identity not of sophistry, economics or calculation. Equally, I wonder if the British imperial apologists have not bound up their identity with the idea of a noble Pax Britannica, and I wonder if that isn’t a misreading of the historical record.