ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Farage has spent years telling us that Britain is broken, pointing the finger at a whole host of problems. He may well be right in some of what he diagnoses, but if he wants to be the man who fixes it, he is going to have to prove that he can run something first.
The PM is not learning from the past – he’s going to try and repeat it’s mistakes. And when our national debt repayments are three times what we spend on defence, that is indefensible.
Polanski may well choose to stand in Holborn and St Pancras. He can use the competition as a referendum on his politics, to show that the Green dream lives on. But if he falls short, he will have almost certainly cemented the Green’s fate.
It’s quite clear that Badenoch, who to opponents appeared presumptuous in asking for “access talks” with the Civil Service last week – a protocol often afforded to the Opposition ahead of an election – was clearly trying to flush out a suspicion, that has now solidified. The Conservative Party is now sure Burnham will go early.
For the story here is not whether Cleverly is the right person for the job, nor is it whether he can win the keys to City Hall. It is how Cleverly uses the political vehicle that is the London Mayorality to shape his political agenda.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
The first to go in any dictatorship are the people who ask awkward questions. So here’s one – do you think it’s normal, fair or even a sign of strength to try and gag those who disagree with you? If you do, you’re a wrong ‘un.
I desperately want to see a right-of-centre government lead Britain into the 2030s and beyond. I want us to, once again, be a serious country that governs for the sake of governing and not for the sake of people-pleasing.
So yes, sort of, there are some changes coming in the Tory ranks more for arrivistes than long marchers but it won’t necessarily be, as we used to call them in my reporter days, “a fully loaded, gold-plated, copper-bottomed bastard of a reshuffle”
Much like the bottom set PE kid you never really wanted on your team, she has fallen at every hurdle – and yet she has somehow still ended up in Badenoch’s innermost sanctum.
The Conservative Party will be looking to select candidates to a number of high profile or marginal seats to start the fight to retake seats lost in 2024, or in one case to pick up the baton after on MP announced she’s standing down.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
At the moment, when I tell people that I am a young conservative, I do so as a hint of rouge appears on my cheeks. I mumble my words, hoping that they will think I am some right-wing nutcase who isn’t worth their time. It doesn’t bring me joy, but it feels necessary in our current climate.
No party shows the slightest sign of knowing how to get so many houses built now. It is reasonable to doubt whether Burnham will be any more successful at national level than he was in Manchester at bringing about an end to rough sleeping.