But Starmer could exceed the very low expectations now held out for him.
It’s the right pitch to carve out a Conservative niche that says ‘you might not want to hear what I have to say, but you’ll always know it’s the truth’.
The bad news for Boris supporters is those who support him coming back (18.7 per cent) and those who’d strongly support it (20.3 percent) are outweighed by those who’d oppose (16.2 percent) and who’d strongly oppose (30.3 percent) by a margin of 7.5 per cent.
The Government has repeatedly brushed aside calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs. About 15 years ago, similarly dismissive police officers in Rotherham waved away a youth worker’s concerns about child exploitation. She was allegedly told: “Stop rocking the multi-cultural boat.”
All voters should be less concerned about the mythical black hole than about the ethical sink-hole that is opening up around the Cabinet table in Number 10.
Anyone who wants to understand modern conservatism, and its debt to Christianity, should buy this book.
Trust the people is a good Conservative maxim. That should include trusting our members.
She was not an easy person to contradict and no one in her circle made the argument against unfunded tax cuts.
The founder of Conservative Home declares that “a lot of Tory MPs want to get rid of the PM but felt a couple of weeks ago wasn’t the right time.”
A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.
The Union needs a cultural case to walk in step with the material one – Project Love, not Project Fear. Which means looking to the future.
As her Lord Chancellor, I would have resigned if she had brought forward such proposals (which she wouldn’t have done anyway).
Plus: Russia’s opposition leader was poisoned, so now slap Magnitsky sanctions on Putin. And: Phil Collins’ ungracious departure.
I was very much the junior partner in the team that launched 18 Doughty Street in 2006. Here’s what we tried to do, and this new enterprise should do.