The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
For too long, combating climate change has been characterised as a left-wing cause. But it is a battle that cannot be won without the Right.
In a world that changes as fast as this one, constant intellectual regeneration should be our goal. Our recovery papers are a contribution to that.
Conservative backbenchers must choose today between two candidates who at first glance at least have much in common.
Walking away will neither avoid a Jeremy Corbyn government or make Boris Johnson govern as a liberal Tory.
The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.
A run-off between him and Johnson would risk being seen as a continuation of the “psychodrama” between the two men.
Any candidate who focuses solely on leaving the EU will hit a brick wall with the Parliamentary Party.
History shows that One Nation Conservatism, once espoused by Powell and Macleod, need not be wet.
The last Prime Minister to seize the centre ground and reduce the opposition to this kind of impotent anger was Tony Blair in his early years.