Hers is a flimsy proposition that Team Rishi could easily defeat, if only they had something substantial to put in its stead.
There’s a perverse tendency for doomed governments to play it safe. This approach didn’t save Stanley Baldwin or John Major, and won’t work now.
The claim that nothing has been achieved springs from the same lack of seriousness — and is simply untrue.
We could just abandon some of our costlier spending commitments — for instance, the triple lock, or having a navy. But I’m assuming that when Tories talk about shrinking the state they have weight-loss in mind not amputation.
With the economic picture so bleak, rejoining might be a tempting bone for Starmer to throw his progressive supporters.
The tax-cutters have tested their established strategies to destruction. When they got their woman into Downing Street, it took just 45 days for their agenda to crash-and-burn.
Every leader fails on one or more of my tests. However, her special achievement is to have flunked all of them in the space of a few weeks.
European populism is partially a symptom of the EU’s fatal flaws. We were lucky to escape in 2016, but for the nations who remain, Britain’s role should be that of helpful friend, not mischief-maker.
Not everyone understands the appeal of monarchy. It falls to those of us who do to make the case for it.
For the One Nation wing of the party, he was the least worst option. Here are five reasons why Truss’s likely victory should not be too dispiriting.
We shouldn’t assume that Tory common sense protects British conservatism. The fact is that rightwing PC — though in a different form to the US version — is making in-roads in this country too.
Sunak has failed to learn from 2020. Gone is his boldness, replaced by dull platitudes and a weak response to national emergencies like soaring energy bills and the housing crisis.
My advice is to unite around a candidate who’s likeable, conservative and comes across to the public. That’s Badenoch.
Faragist liberatarians wouldn’t have the right message to seize the moment – but Dominic Cummings is a different story.