The defeat of these parties is above all a task for the moderate Right.
Only by improving this Bill, and by delivering on the Prime Ministers’ pledge to stop the boats, can we assert with confidence that the people’s will has prevailed.
They have grown up in a cultural milieu that denigrates Britain’s culture and history to the point that the idea it is even worthy of respect – never mind dying for – is ridiculous.
The OBR predicts that our total debt pile will more than triple to 310 per cent of GDP by 2070. As staggering a figure as that is, it will never be a priority for politicians interested in buying their re-election on the backs of future generations.
The Government needs as broad a coalition of voices as possible to tackle the fissure opening up in our constitution and public life.
The author has the abilities of a sketchwriter, but not of Edmund Burke.
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
Racist opposition to immigration, notably in the former East Germany, does not mean reputable opposition is impossible.
In the same interview he said “I tend to be rather bad at politics”, which is true if one takes the holding of great offices of state as the yardstick of success.
The option to “merely sit” is not available at present, since there is currently a battle of ideas between conservatism and its foes, and also one taking place within conservative thought itself.
We propose a new fund providing competitive grants exclusively to micro and small charities, which often provide services in isolated communities. And regulations should be set proportionate to charity income.
Burke would not have been impressed by large number of merely local concerns raised by MPs.
The measures would signal that we are a national community, membership of which brings particular rights and also obligations. It sounds pretty Conservative to me.
Pundits are scornful, and see “blue on blue” violence, when actually the Conservative Party is holding the necessary national argument.
The party must put up its sails and navigate back towards traditional conservatism. To do so, we will need to pick up and wield the sword of imagination – with a little help from some of our party’s greatest thinkers.