Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”
Corbyn thinks he is about to carry all before him, and conveys a kind of hubris.
If new members realise that they have no real say in making their new party one that really works for everyone, they won’t remain members for long.
Our snap judgement is that Tory MPs and members are not. But there are warning signs: a fragile leader, a rusty machine – and a project that urgently needs renewal.
They include both the working class vote being up for grabs…and the Party adapting to the changing nature of modern Britain.
A cheap, simple service is not a good enough defence when delivered by a company with poor morals and corporate standards.
The difference between us and the Labour is that we deal with the world and reality as it is – not as some utopia we would like it to be.
The referendum was at least as much a vote against London as against Brussels – and those whose expert arrogance made them seem to many to be foreigners here.
We will have one shot at getting the revision of the Planning Framework right. This makes the next eighteen months critical for the Conservatives’ long-term future.
Voters aren’t focusing on the constitution, but on the SNP’s record in Government. We must be ready to capitalise on this by telling then the truth.
With the stakes as high as they are, the Tories need to throw the kitchen sink at the Opposition to drag themselves ahead in the polls.
Conservative values underpin what it can achieve – whether in apprenticeships, manufacturing exports, jobs or contributions to good causes.
Britain could flourish under the minimalist WTO-type settlement that seems to be his bottom line. But it is not the optimal outcome, and threatens a significant downside.
EURATOM, WTO quotas, open skies agreements, banks’ ability to lend – all these involve change which it may not be possible to effect by April 2019.
If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.