I worry that the voters of 2019 will abandon the Conservative Party because promises have been unfulfilled. I hope by forcing answers to at least some of these questions, we might avoid it.
The Government must understand our success – and remember why the Conservatives battled so hard to get into power in the first place.
Not even the best reforming Minister I’ve ever seen can smooth out disagreements between the Treasury and Downing Street.
Opponents are fighting on different fronts – some arguing about whether to do anything while others arguing about who pays for what we do.
It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper.
The manifesto path means doing things now. The Cameroon path relies on a public rejection of much said before. A vague agenda in the middle won’t cut it.
It doesn’t make grand predictions about what will work or what we should do. It just prices in the ‘bad’ – in this case, emissions.
If the Government does not communicate what is involved on its own terms, and soon, it risks inspiring a new political insurgency.
Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing nobody. Even Lisa Nandy, who seems more alert than most of her rivals, has fallen into this trap.
The parents we have most consistently let down are those we have not empowered to demand more for their children. That must change.
To view Britain in such a way is to see a useless picture of the nation. Most people are Just About Managing. And they are our new voters.
Otherwise the Left will continue to dominate much of civil society and public life.
My local secondary schools were no-go areas and no one from my primary school went to one. That won’t be my children’s experience, and he can take a lot of credit.
Voters will simply not accept that the Conservative Party is starting from scratch yet again, with a programme for which it has no mandate.