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.
Conservatives cannot expect to return to power unless they make peace with the lost Tory tribe that is Reform.
A new book Rage of Party tells the story of how Toryism, initially the creed of Royalist elites, became populist in the face of Whig oligarchy. It makes for a terrific read. We now hear that the Tories are ‘finished.’ I feel it is far too soon for threnodies.
Labour ministers who until recently yearned to rejoin the European Union now proclaim their devotion to the United Kingdom.
Even the most dedicated and skilled police force – as Leicestershire Police clearly is – can’t do the job if they don’t have the right tools.
In trying to hark back to a more agrarian Britain, the protectionists repudiated a source of its living wisdom.
Retracing the party’s moments of near oblivion over trade may cast light on a path towards more enduring party unity. The first in a two-part series.
After 14 years in government, the state has grown ever bigger, ever more expensive, and ever more ungovernable, whilst growth has proved ever elusive. Our social contract is defunct.
Whatever the members choose, without a radical re-imagination and critical re-evaluation of the party’s core set of ideas and philosophy, there is no hope for the party in Parliament in providing effective opposition – nor in the next general election.
The Labour leader is a pragmatist who is well able to justify Conservative plans when he thinks they will work.
He does not just say what people want him to say, regardless of whether he can achieve it.
But Tory Democracy has triumphed for much of our history since Disraeli, and can before long be expected to triumph again.
I aim to give the police the training, equipment, and leadership they need to strengthen their relationship with the law-abiding public.
Badenoch understands the importance of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as Reform would risk. Those trotting along on their ideological ponies, tilting at windmills, need to have a word with themselves.