Thatcherism was never the politics of protest. It was the politics of government, grounded in ideas strong enough not only to win power, but to sustain it once won.
He opens for Badenoch a wide field of action as a leader who can take hard decisions and stick to them.
The passing of Simon Richards, former Chief Executive of The Freedom Association and Chairman of Better Off Out, marks the loss of a man whose life was guided by principle, kindness and an enduring belief in freedom.
Our political class is paralysed because the wider nation has not yet decided in what direction it wishes to be led.
British government and politics have stopped working properly. But to run a place, you need to look as if you like it. The “everything is broken” view carries a risk of nihilism: if crapness is inevitable, why even try?
People want to know what the party will do in the future. Conservative statecraft is about surveying the past to enable current and future prosperity. It’s also about the party’s willingness to change and adapt to the times.
Blue Collar Conservatism exists to reshape Britain into a country that works for working people by delivering a programme of national renewal built on a relentless focus on jobs and opportunity by maximising the potential of its people.
We have been a happy vassal of the US since Suez and it is a feat of mental unpleasantness to opt for anything else – only now that miserable slavery is on the table does the thought of accepting mental unpleasantness raise its head.
Politics is a game that moves quickly. It enthrals and never ceases to surprise, meaning a Conservative comeback remains on the cards.
Jenrick thinks things are so bad that we need a “revolution” but Reform have given little indication of what an economic revolution might look like. Reform cannot be trusted with the public finances. The Conservatives should carry on with the hard work of showing they can be
Whilst of course we have serious challenges, we should not slide into presenting our great country simply as some endless stream of shocking tales and fatalistic doom mongering – even if that gets clicks.
He is at once more cosmopolitan and more parochial, more devout and more flippant than any recent writer who springs to mind.
Britain’s challenge is not a shortage of employment rights but a shortage of business confidence. The surest way to make work pay is to make work plentiful.
The 2024 intake is rediscovering a more Thatcherite voice: championing a free, entrepreneurial and property-owning democracy.