It’s starting to feel that this issue might also end up in the too-difficult box – and therefore that the sale might ultimately go through, regardless of what Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, does in the immediate term.
Our research found that voters who account for Labour’s poll surge are more likely to say the recent announcement on diesel and petrol cars has made them less likely to return to the Conservatives.
Time will tell, but my impression is the way the announcement was made – and, crucially, reported – means it’ll have a marginally negative impact overall.
Only four per cent of leave voters have swallowed hardcore Remainers’ line that we were all lied to and that we are need a vote right now to go back in.
There was, and remains, a durable coalition behind a Tory Party that stands unabashedly as the champion of working people of every class.
It’s hard to say this was a Autumn Statement for ordinary working-class voters though – the voters who gave the Party its massive 2019 majority
It’s hard to know how to reply to voters who say “your mistakes were massive, and we’re paying the price”.
The Conservatives can only have a hope of improving their position if they realise how bad it is.
It’s beyond frustrating to see the reputation of free-market policies trashed because of mistakes that could have been avoided with some basic research and planning.
Working class voters don’t yet hate the new policies, but it is easy to see how they will come to do so as a bad winter bites.
He is entirely devoted to the country. He’s the country’s over-worked parish priest; he seems to exist to keep the country ticking over.
The Government’s survival depends on a massive package of financial support for families.
Ministers need to start making up for lost time and launch a high-profile public campaign alongside the energy companies.
Voters’ assessments of their ability to pay their bills make grim reading. Ministers will need to tread very carefully in the months ahead.
If the Telegraph started, even subtly, to change its position on, say, foreign affairs, or tax, the world would look very different for the Conservative Party and the wider conservative movement.