His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
In last week’s local elections, several results went against the national trend. Unpacking why shows how the Tory vote has changed since 2010.
YouGov research has revealed an important section of the electorate that Tory strategists would do well to target ahead of 2024.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.
Love him or loathe him, many of his views are widely-held amongst the electorate and wildly under-represented in public life.
Katharine Birbalsingh’s departure gives the Commission an opportunity to focus on families, employers and colleges too.
The unions were small-c conservatives. They paraded under heraldic banners, had no truck with such new-fangled ideas as women’s rights, and wanted to keep every coal mine in the country open.
There was, and remains, a durable coalition behind a Tory Party that stands unabashedly as the champion of working people of every class.
It’s hard to say this was a Autumn Statement for ordinary working-class voters though – the voters who gave the Party its massive 2019 majority
It’s beyond frustrating to see the reputation of free-market policies trashed because of mistakes that could have been avoided with some basic research and planning.
Working class voters don’t yet hate the new policies, but it is easy to see how they will come to do so as a bad winter bites.
Ministers need to start making up for lost time and launch a high-profile public campaign alongside the energy companies.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.