The scene is starting to be set for an election in which Labour defends the ever growing Welfare State.
We are entitled to more than the carefully crafted cheeky chap with his dress down bonhomie but real, solid, answers to politically serious questions about Britain’s future and his plans for shaping that.
It was a ponzi scheme of policy, with each successive idea being bolstered not through substance but yet more buzzwords. A sort of Jenga tower of ideas, the base of which is weak and faltering, preparing to collapse under the weight of public scrutiny at any moment.
It does not matter that we shall have had seven PMs in a decade: repeated failure at length becomes instructive.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
And so yes, an early general election should worry us, but it should also motivate us to get our house in order and ready ourselves to do battle. To don our armour, and prepare accordingly. I have no doubts that preparations are underway, and that some type of doomsday plan exists if Burnham decides to go to the country.
Kemi Badenoch in many ways was doing – not to Starmer, but those that have moved him on – something she’s there to do: tell the truth. And yes, the truth hurts. And when that truth is far tamer than some of the things Labour have said about Conservatives my sympathy-gland shrivels.
Truss made it clear that to, in her words, “save Britain” and to “save the west” that “very bold change” is needed. Who this change comes from is anybody’s guess, but she is confident that a conservative solution to the issues currently facing the country “needs to be possible.”
Having gone through 6 prime ministers and 3 general elections, it would be foolish to deny that Brexit has had a lasting impact on Britain. Whether such an impact has been positive or negative is for the public to decide, but Lord Elliott most definitely believes that it has been a positive experience.
I see no appetite for introspection from Starmer or Reform. Anything but the mirror, and despite the fact that such a weakness helps us, it seems a crying shame they can’t, for their own good, take a hard look and go ‘You know what folks, this is on us, and we need to do better’
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
Burnham won. He didn’t squeak it. Restore in the end were as irrelevant as the Tories. And the Tories beat the odds and the SNP in Aberdeen. So if you’ve been told for two years that the Conservatives are ‘dead, finished, over’ – the results this morning are Lab 1, Cons 1, Reform 0.
The pact question will not go away, but it is also not yet the right question to be asking. The right question, for now, is whether conservatism can make itself compelling enough that the answer becomes irrelevant.
We need an offer to the younger generation. Not just us, the country needs an offer to the younger generation. Given how much we will rely on them, whilst curbing their opportunities and piling on the debt.
The phrase ‘two-tier Britain’ can be tossed around as much as the right want. But for Reform, there are two versions of it. One they will happily scrutinise and lambast. And one that quietly suits them fine.