
Nick Hargrave: Meet Megan and David – who, with others like them, may determine this election result
If on election day they think the result is a foregone conclusion, then they are more likely to use their vote in different ways.
Nick Hargrave is a former Downing Street special adviser, where he worked under both David Cameron and Theresa May.
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I am arguing that there is some limited space for radical candour with the electorate on the difficult choices facing the country in the 2020s.
In some campaigns, the end result is overwhelmingly likely before a stump has been erected. This is not one of those occasions.
The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.
It would also be dishonest to claim that the thought of voting Liberal Democrat did not flicker momentarily as we’ve veered towards knuckle-head, pound-shop Orbanism.
Governing is harder than campaigning – and doing so with next to no majority in an emerging constitutional crisis is another order altogether.
Until the Party is prepared to have this debate with itself, then he will continue to be at the mercy of a Brexit tiger that he helped unleash.
None of what follows is impossible and, if there is a common thread, it is the self-interest of MPs in avoiding an election before leaving the EU.
The seats that might back a No Deal offer for cultural reasons might well balk at it for economic ones.
He knows that you don’t get to enact a vision for the country until you can thread it first with the fabric of your party.
Onward puts the importance placed on the environment amongst under 35s in roughly the same category as housing and education.
To be able to move on, the candidates must first articulate an honest vision of our new relationship with the European Union.
The cohort of future Conservative leadership candidates would do well to start thinking about the structure of the Number 10 they want to build.
Its muscular power is needed to boost share ownership, build houses and tax wealth rather than income. And let’s rule out a No Deal Brexit.
Our party will not be able to speak for Britain as it really is, and as it will increasingly come to be, unless we make some efforts to reflect this in our membership.