ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Conservative members overwhelmingly (76.4 per cent) thought Burham would get a bounce in the polls for Labour, but that it won’t last. The 10.9 percent who thought it could last a long time might be predicting an early election. In another one of those the old MP for Clacton is the new MP for Clacton. That’s it.
Whilst Farage parades around the Clacton Leisure Centre, tooting his own horn and boasting that he has the establishment on the run, rival parties should very much prepare for a future contest. That, above all else, should be the takeaway from today’s foregone conclusion.
I just wanted to be the voice momentarily, who says that you can comfortably believe that the law is right, the guidance there for a reason, and still love someone whom it effects. I have absolutely no desire whatever to try and ‘change’ my son’s mind or bother with an attempt. I like them as they are.
Whether these numbers will hold up going into our next survey remains a mystery. Kemi’s decision to stand by Joshua Bonehill-Paine, alongside her ill-received letter to the residents of Clacton were uncharacteristic, unforced errors, that may well eat into her favourability come next month.
80 per cent of Conservative members think it’s right to hold new candidates to supporting the party policy on net-zero and the ECHR, and 73.4 per cent backed the decision not field a candidate in the upcoming Clacton by-election.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
My perceptions from afar leave me feeling we could do with less performative politics and try and actually get detail and delivery – hard I know for any party not in government, but still possible. The overall subliminal message I got for two weeks is ‘we are saying stuff that to make you feel better’ and I didn’t.
Indeed, what these figures show is a party that left government for the first time in fourteen years and now has the finances of a party in opposition. That’s it.
Again, I reiterate that I am all for second chances. But there comes a point in which one cannot extend the generosity of yet another attempt. Bonehill-Paine – I believe -, despite what he has done since being released, crossed that point of no return
His plan to stop the boats by sending the Royal Marines onto French beaches fell apart as soon as he had announced it.
The results in Manchester, and Rupert Lowe’s stunt, will be seized upon by many as proof that the right must unite, and that the Conservatives are dead. Both conclusions are wrong. Bowing to the demands of tacky populists would be the ultimate humiliation, and one by-election result in a Labour heartland should not dictate the Tories’ direction of travel.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Why should the state usurp the role of the family? The UK have three times as many old people in residential care as Poland.
At the moment, however, Reform possesses contradictory beliefs on the matter. They push back against state overreach in the case of Connolly, but very much welcome it in the case of Polanski. They must make their minds up. They are either staunch defenders of free speech, or they draw the line at incitement.