ConservativeHome’s round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
It is an absurd caricature of Tory philosophy to pretend that our Party must unthinkingly defend whatever the status quo happens to be, no matter how poorly it serves the nation.
The Conservatives gained a seat from an independent in Pembrokeshire.
Sunak to strip GPs of right to sign people off sick | MPs and peers set to vote overnight to get Rwanda Bill through | Tory activists call for ‘disgusting’ MP Menzies to face police probe | Dowden ‘urges Sunak’ to call early election amid fears of Tory wipe out
Once again, the intolerant partnership of Islamists and progressives joined forces to attack peaceful conservatism and sanitise evil in a major European city.
Another quarter of them said they didn’t want the party to win, but to have enough MPs left to form a decent Opposition and hold the new government to account.
Whilst we all put a great deal of time into our literature, the reality is that once it lands on someone’s doormat you have between 6-10 seconds to make an impression on those picking it up off the doormat and walking to the kitchen bin.
Instead of building a legacy in concrete things they actually achieved, our leaders instead now try to conjure one by setting a binding but remote aspiration and letting others work out the details.
Sinn Féin are already the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and are poised to form the next government in Dublin. Fine Gael and the DUP thus have a common enemy.
The attempt to shut down the National Conservatism conference in Belgium is a clear-cut case of abuse of power that has exposed a disturbing attitude towards freedom of expression and assembly.
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We face an unprecedented number of ex-prime ministers trying to spin their legacies, and an unprecedented number of outlets in which they can do so. This will not be helpful.
Those who have their doubts or feel uncomfortable with this new potential Tory coalition must accept the political reality that the party needs these new supporters.
If councillors were to bend to pressure from campaigners on behalf of the casualties of all ongoing armed conflict on the planet, to debate what demands to make of the combatants, they would have insufficient time left at council meetings to conduct actual council business.
This is a chance for MPs to eschew ideological pressures and do the right thing. British women and their babies deserve far better than decriminalisation.