Reform supports the expansion of the Senedd from 60 to 96 members at a cost of £120m. On this they are on the same page as Labour, Plaid, the Lib Dems, and the Greens. Only the Welsh Conservatives have opposed this expansion from the start and want to reverse it.
We’re offering a fully costed and authentically conservative manifesto. After 27 years of falling standards and economic decline under Labour, this is an offer of a better future: lower taxes, better public services, and a growing economy.
We’ve been asking, what is the state of the left-of-centre voting coalition under the biggest Labour majority for nearly 30 years? With Reform ahead in the polls, can the left mobilise to keep the right out of office? It might be trickier than some imagine.
My latest polling looks at preferred coalitions, tactical voting, which parties have momentum, whether Reform UK are like the Conservatives , whether Keir Starmer should resign, and which Labour leadership contender would make the best PM.
This was a by-election that showed political support is fragmenting. Neither of the two traditional parties finished in the top two. The Greens got over 40 per cent of the vote but we’re now in a world where MPs will win with a vote share of just a third or even lower.
the Liberal Democrats are not a serious contender for government, and should not be allowed anywhere near the reins of power. They will never be held accountable for their iundeliverable promises, and so do not care as to whether their plans are possible or not.
A party which is called Reform and which fails to reform is utterly redundant. Voters do not gift infinite patience to a movement defining itself in one way and carrying itself in another; the current Labour government, and the Conservative government before it, tell us that much.
Polling shows the right’s combined vote share to be enough to oust Labour and install a Tory-Reform administration. But even if the personalities could agree and the politics navigated would this hypothetical alliance be as big as the sum of its parts?
Prosper UK wants to give voice to a yearning for politics that is serious, realistic, and pragmatic. Focused on the economy and willing to face up to trade-offs. That understands that business matters, as does credibility with investors.
“We have to step up and fast,” he says, as he urges the Government to increase spending on defence.
Fairness in housing cannot be achieved through slogans or sweeping decrees. It depends on trust, partnership, and a justice system that works efficiently for everyone. The Renters’ Rights Act risks undermining all three.
Offer a credible economic plan; demonstrate a determination to solve problems, not just exploit them; recognise that lessons have been learnt from the Tory time in office.
What if a new leader – Wes Streeting, say – wins the premiership, then goes to the country in 2029, on a promise to rejoin the EU customs union, maybe even the single market? Doesn’t that give most of the left a cause they can get fired up about?
It’ll feel a shorter road to May than the calendar suggests, all parties need to get on top of their equations and produce some credible solutions to our knotty problems.
Diverting the current course would be a costly exercise that would not provide a significant improvement in security and bring into question the future of the ‘special relationship’.