ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
At their Buckinghamshire away day, Conservatives talked strategy, unity and message. The by-election result – which saw Greens win and Labour pushed into third by Reform – suggests they may need to put them into action sooner than they think.
He opens for Badenoch a wide field of action as a leader who can take hard decisions and stick to them.
Take a lesson from my driving instructor: ‘Take space to make space.’ The art of being heard by people who don’t want to listen takes determined calm not frustration. It requires seizing the moment, a tactical swallow of humility and then to “KBO” re-stating your case.
Inside Badenoch’s bet that young voters still believe in hard work and reward – while bringing fun back to the Young Conservatives.
Our political class is paralysed because the wider nation has not yet decided in what direction it wishes to be led.
Confidence within a party is not a guarantee of confidence in a party. Indeed there is a whiff of a ‘crisis of confidence’ coming from the wider party mirroring this time last year. Any hint of complacency about where they are now, would be politically suicidal.
ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
The live video feed, paired with social media, has transformed the Commons into a personal broadcast studio. There is a lack of engagement and persuasion in the chamber than there is video harvesting.
Henry leaves ConservativeHome with our gratitude and our very best wishes for the future.
…good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight.
The Conservatives should not be intimidated or cowed by a good week for Reform but look at the lessons to be drawn, exploit the weaknesses – because they exist – or better just keep reminding people they are far from dead, and very much still in the game.
From local elections to fiscal rules, Labour’s government is proving that the only change it can deliver is Starmer changing his mind.
The judges appear to have decided that the Home Office has the power to modify acts of parliament by publishing internal guidance.
The Conservative party is feeling both bullish and more confident, whilst completely aware that the brand, if not the leader needs a huge amount of work, and that persuasion is now less about appeasing the angry but persuading the indifferent.