Richard Kelly: A lesson from May’s departure – and from history. So often, it’s Tory activists, not MPs, who bring down their leader.
Yesterday’s emergency National Convention meeting was a reminder of the influence and power of the grassroots.
Posts by Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly is Head of Politics at Manchester Grammar School and the author of Conservative Party Conferences: The Hidden System (Manchester University Press).
Richard Kelly: Brexit has exposed the age-old clash between liberalism and democracy
‘Liberal democracy’ is not an inevitable combination. Nor, it seems, is it necessarily a sustainable one.
Richard Kelly: From Burke to burkhas – why it’s time for Tory multiculturalism
Conservatives should shed atavistic ideas of British-ness,