“Difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations”
May’s muddled call for an apology from Johnson suggests that her approach to integration, cohesion and extremism is all at sea.
Truss cuts the Gordian Knot on housing
She notes that the choice is not between maintaining prices or building more, but between building more and ushering in Corbynism.
Political beliefs ought to be the subject of robust debate, not protected with legal cotton wool
The way equalities law applies to “philosophical belief” has created a messy courtroom battleground for all sorts of angry fringe groups to seek protection.
If HS2’s bill keeps inflating, it might yet explode the whole scheme
The project is already well over its original price. Some dream of abandoning it.
Inside the minds of the Conservative grassroots
We know more today than we did yesterday – and we aim to know still more tomorrow.
A vaping tax would kill people
It wouldn’t be a “sin tax”, it would be a tax penalising people for stopping smoking. The Treasury’s greed would have outweighed its logic.
Our Cabinet League Table. The Chequers effect blitzes everyone. They’re all down. And May dives to her lowest rating ever.
This is collective punishment for the new Brexit policy. P.S: when ratings fall in this way, place in the table scarcely matters.
How should our electoral law change to work in the digital age?
From ‘fake news’ to micro-targeting, crowd-funding to data rights, we explore the key areas of focus for an overdue review of the rules of our democracy.
Our Survey. Next Tory Leader. Johnson more than triples his score to come top – for the first time since 2016
It’s the Chequers factor – as Gove falls from second to fifth. Javid remains competitive on 19 per cent, coming second this month.
Our survey finds a record fall of confidence in May. Over two in five Party members want her out now.
And eight out of ten want her replaced before the next election. These are absymal findings for Downing Street.
Our Tory members’ panel survey. Expectation of a Conservative-led government after the next election drops to a record low.
We register a dizzying fall of 18 per cent since the Chequers Cabinet meeting and the Brexit White Paper.
May’s future. Next Tory Leader. Cabinet League Table. Our monthly survey is out.
All our usual questions as Parliament’s recess begins in our first full survey since the Chequers Cabinet summit and the Brexit White Paper.
The campaign for a second referendum isn’t really a campaign for a second referendum
It’s real aim is to create the circumstances in which Brexit can be halted – without the all-but-impossible holding of a pre-March 29 plebiscite.
YouGov once again echoes the ConHome panel on May and Tory leadership
Polling Conservative members is a tricky business, but these mutually reinforcing findings suggests our free, monthly survey is up to the task.
Are Blair’s Brexit interventions about more than just rewriting his legacy?
A generation of voters is coming of age with no memory of Iraq. They could grant him a new place in the history books – or even the Government.