ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
The Conservative Party remains under pressure, but the sense of paralysis that defined much of the year has eased. Badenoch’s leadership seems to have finally steadied the party and lifted the mood.
Not only does it lean even further into the natural advantages as prospective candidates enjoyed by councillors, but it will in general select for MPs who conduct themselves like councillors regardless.
There’s a clear political advantage for any who adopt language that frames their vision in a positive way. It’s simple psychology. People want something to believe in more than they want something that will give them Schadenfreude.
Starmer says power is frustrating. His government seems determined to prove the point. From defence spending to schools guidance, Labour’s instinct is not action but sluggish postponement.
Kemi Badenoch should take care to emphasise the latter as well as the former, so as to reassure environmentally-minded Conservatives that this is about better policy, not a dirtier planet.
Let our opponents claim we’re done, I think they’ve over played that, but if the Conservatives underplay their efforts to prove them wrong, they’ll end up being right.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
From GoPros on aprons to Come Fly With Me spoofs, the Conservatives are quietly becoming the UK’s most-watched political brand – outstripping its targets and giving Westminster something to talk about.
The whole point of the Convention is that it elevates certain rights above the political realm. There is an inherent tension between such an arrangement and democracy.
One of the things I heard a lot about the process of government from inside Government was ‘you have to deal with the world as it is, not how you wish it was’. Starmer prefers a world of wishes and worse, he expects you to go along with it.
It strikes as a politics of convenience, just as it is when Reform embrace Tory defectors when it suits, stand them as candidates when it suits, block them when it doesn’t, and turn a blind eye to whether they vacate the positions they won as Conservatives.
If nothing else, there may yet at some point be another Tory chancellor, and if past performance is any guide their budgets are going to leak.
As the King knows, Christians are better placed than rationalists to integrate Muslims into British society.