The scale of ambition for recapturing the rural vote is admittedly large, and it will be a challenge, but with the right infrastructure, the right tools and the right candidates it is one we can overcome.
Starmer’s majority is shallow and brittle. Early candidate selections in the right seats should be one of the most obvious marginal gains, in the style of Dave Brailsford’s Team Sky cycling squad.
Private operators currently contribute over £1 billion annually to the railway network. Why cut off a vital investment stream?
We need to look at each part of our machinery and make it at least one per cent better. By doing so, the small improvements compound, creating big jumps forward.
Setting a minimum level for service across key public services is not only reasonable and proportionate, but safe. And it is the first duty of any government to keep citizens safe from harm.
Starmer claims that granting visas to European drivers is the answer – even though EU countries are having the same issue.
Our vaccination programme is proof of what can be achieved when science and industry is backed by the power of the state.
Our Union Connectivity Review will favour routes that serve this aim – be they the A75, the A55 in north Wales or the air corridors to Northern Ireland.
Our initiative will bring together Ministers, Mayors and council leaders, to thrash out ways of building new infrastructure during the life of this parliament.
We brought home 150,000 passengers, on 746 different flights to ten airports around the country. And 94 pc flew back on their scheduled departure date.
Later today, we launch the Homes for Heroes Foundation. It aims to ensure that Britain has the finest housing package for returning armed forces of any country in the world.
In the second piece of this week’s series on aid, the International Development Minister describes a new scheme that uses technology to transform lives.
Here is our simple, positive, Conservative message on jobs – for when you are knocking on doors in the weeks ahead.
The Opposition would threaten economic chaos.
The next Conservative revival won’t arrive in a briefing note or a clever line. It will come, slowly and unglamorously, from people willing to do the hard work.