We do not have a divine right to govern; we have to earn it as our forebears did. We have been here before and it means doubling down and working harder.
In my professional life, I work daily with complex organisations – in education, health, and the private sector. Advising on change, structure, and process, and turning round organisations where they are failing for one of these.
The Board has agreed to re-establish the Constitutional Review Committee to ensure we are continually looking for opportunities to cut bureaucracy and improve the way we campaign and grow our party.
CCHQ itself is also a victim of what it has helped to create. Here’s a way forward that should be acceptable to all.
Cllr Duncan Goodfellow complains Lord Hunt’s message to the association “could be seen as seeking to fetter the independent and impartial decision of members”.
Apparently aware of the potential controversy, the Party Board has appointed Lord Hunt to supervise the ballot in East Staffordshire next week.
The Vice-Chairman of the ’22 served on the Board for nine years, and recently oversaw the leadership contest, so his departure is a surprise.
The Party’s rules – and the history of legal challenges to them – make for grim reading for the former Chancellor.
As Chairman, whilst you are an attack dog, you are also in charge of the very beating heart of the Conservative Party. You cannot fix the long-term issues which face both the professional party and the grassroots without a long-term Chairman.