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Nick Hargrave

Posts by Nick Hargrave

Nick Hargrave is a former Downing Street special adviser, where he worked under both David Cameron and Theresa May.

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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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 30 November 2019 at 6:30 am | 14 comments

Nick Hargrave: Wanted. A Too Difficult Department to help tackle intractable post-election problems.

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 16 November 2019 at 6:30 am | 97 comments

Nick Hargrave: Ten pieces of advice for political staffers during this coming election

In some campaigns, the end result is overwhelmingly likely before a stump has been erected. This is not one of those occasions.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 2 November 2019 at 6:45 am | 82 comments

Nick Hargrave: Why Special Advisers should be neither seen nor heard

The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 4 October 2019 at 6:30 am | 16 comments

Nick Hargrave: As a Tory moderate, I’ve been tempted to give up on Johnson’s party. But here’s why I’m sticking with it.

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 20 September 2019 at 6:40 am | 269 comments

Nick Hargrave: How Downing Street should adapt to the new premiership – if either is to work at all

Governing is harder than campaigning – and doing so with next to no majority in an emerging constitutional crisis is another order altogether.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 20 July 2019 at 6:30 am | 15 comments

Nick Hargrave: What Prime Minister Johnson should do to keep moderate support – and build the best outcomes for Britain

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 6 July 2019 at 6:30 am | 104 comments

Nick Hargrave: How Johnson became Prime Minister, cut a Brexit deal, won an election – and triumphed. For a bit.

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 8 June 2019 at 6:40 am | 97 comments

Nick Hargrave: Why a referendum and not an election could offer the new leader a Brexit answer

The seats that might back a No Deal offer for cultural reasons might well balk at it for economic ones.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 25 May 2019 at 6:40 am | 102 comments

Nick Hargrave: Modernisers may not trust Johnson, but they should learn from him

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 11 May 2019 at 6:45 am | 125 comments

Nick Hargrave: Why Conservatives must catch the green tide

Onward puts the importance placed on the environment amongst under 35s in roughly the same category as housing and education.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 27 April 2019 at 6:45 am | 209 comments

Nick Hargrave: What’s needed now to get us out of this mess. First, a new leader. Next, a general election.

To be able to move on, the candidates must first articulate an honest vision of our new relationship with the European Union.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 16 March 2019 at 6:30 am | 95 comments

Nick Hargrave: A memo to the next Tory leader. How you govern will be no less important than why.

The cohort of future Conservative leadership candidates would do well to start thinking about the structure of the Number 10 they want to build.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 2 March 2019 at 6:45 am | 17 comments

Nick Hargrave: The capitalism of the future demands a bigger role for the state

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 16 February 2019 at 6:45 am | 90 comments

Nick Hargrave: Conservative moderates need to help change our Party. Here’s how to start doing it.

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.

Columnists, Highlights | By Nick Hargrave | 2 February 2019 at 6:45 am | 185 comments

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