Most of the action has been over Covid-related divisions. And most of the dissenters are from older intakes.
Plus: Don’t let the serialisation put you off Alan Duncan’s diaries – it’s the insights into being a Foreign Office minister that really shine.
An influential voice and well respected, the ERG politician has put his beliefs ahead of short-term career opportunism.
Technologically and culturally, the Asian country is a very different place – and it launched its programme before the virus could take root.
Plus: What would it take to get the Cabinet leavers to resign? Clarke’s Maastricht Treaty Customs Union moment. And: in defence of Robbie Gibb.
Churchill, Mosley, Powell, Prentice, Owen, Berkeley, Taverne…There are the awkward men of principle. Those whose parties have changed radically. And the lost souls.
Would a Conservative Party led by him have beaten UKIP?
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The next general election will not be concentrated in the counties, but it will decide the government. For this reason, voters will return to the two major parties, the Conservatives and Labour, one of which must lead in forming an administration, if not win outright. Turnout will rise, UKIP's […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter What’s going on with the draft Data Communications Bill, then? Judging by Theresa May’s mini column for the Sun this morning, you’d think that the Tory leadership is basically standing its ground against the concerns of Nick Clegg and others. The Home Secretary does nod towards “suggestions about how our […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The newspapers this morning are awash with Borismania. Andrew Grice in the Independent says the Mayor of London's inner circle are scouting seats in London and the South East for him to stand in, should an election be called. Charles Moore argues that conventional politics is not working – […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter The current edition of the FT's Weekend Magazine has a special feature, in which leading Tories – big beasts like Lord Tebbit, John Redwood, and David Davis, new intake MPs like Jo Johnson, Sajid Javid and Nick Boles, and perhaps less conventional Conservative figures like the artist, Tracey Emin – […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Welcome to this new section of ConservativeHome – FutureConservatism.com – where I'll be setting out the kind of electoral manifesto and machine that can help give David Cameron a majority at the next election. There'll be ten big themes to this manifesto and I'll start setting them out later […]
If the Spartans hadn’t held out against the pleas of our colleagues then Britain would have been trapped in a customs union with no way out.