If the campaign management were outsourced, as recently, who would take it on? And if it weren’t, could CCHQ really cope?
Conservative MPs should not sit idly by as their party’s ratings sink to the mid-30s and below. There’s reason to think the change isn’t temporary.
Harmony reigned as he denied being a revolutionary.
I’d relax the limits significantly if not totally, but insist on near real-time transparency from campaigns over their permitted donors.
In an era when it is harder for young people to buy a house, or even just to pay rent, it makes sense to direct more help to them than older people who already have one.
The Electoral Reform Society calculates that a tiny change in votes would have given May a bare majority last spring. But how much difference would this have made?
But that doesn’t mean we should stop calling out Jeremy Corbyn for his terrible polices and illusory promises.
We can already see the damage being done to the Tory vote by the uncomfortable prospect of a near-permanent twilight state of austerity.
Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.
We must design a conservatism that appeals to both.
The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.
The reshuffle showed just how far BME Conservatives have come since I first joined the Party, but we have much farther still to go.