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Posts Tagged: Alok Sharma MP

The short sharp shuffle. Sharma takes on COP26 full-time. Kwarteng steps up a rung to become Business Secretary.

This minimalist manoeuvre, carried out in graveyard news time, suggests that a bigger reshuffle has been postponed until the other side of the year.

By Paul Goodman | 9 January 2021 | 77 comments

Iain Dale: The social media companies claim that they aren’t publishers. But their ban on the President proves that they are.

Plus: Biden won fair and square, Trump’s allegations of fraud have been dismissed by the courts – and one can be a conservative and say so.

By Iain Dale | 8 January 2021 | 65 comments

Our Cabinet League Table feels the Brexit Trade Deal Bounce

Johnson is up to ninth from fifth from bottom, Gove jumps up to near the top quarter, Hancock is clearer from the relegation zone – and Truss stays top.

By Paul Goodman | 29 December 2020 | 33 comments

The biggest decision has already been taken. We have left the EU. So let’s treat whatever comes next as an opportunity.

If no good deal comes and No Deal happens, the option of a return to EU membership is no longer on the table.

By Paul Goodman | 14 December 2020 | 82 comments

Truss tops our Cabinet League Table for the first time

Wallace is well up, Gove down, and Patel much the same in the wake of that bullying report – and Johnson and Hancock just outside negative ratings.

By Paul Goodman | 4 December 2020 | 62 comments

Andy Street: 15 years on, we can finally heal the scars of MG Rover’s collapse

Completing the regeneration of Longbridge would be a powerful example of Conservative policy actively “levelling up” the economy.

By Andy Street | 1 December 2020 | 12 comments

Our Cabinet League Table: Sunak is still top, and Johnson is back in positive territory – just

All in all, it’s much of a muchness – with Douglas Ross down by about 25 points, now that his Party Conference coverage has faded.

By Paul Goodman | 2 November 2020 | 28 comments

Three actions that Ministers must take if we’re to live without fear. Or else they and we will be lost.

If the public conversation about lives and livelihoods doesn’t change, we risk being trapped in semi-lockdown semi-permanently.

By Paul Goodman | 15 October 2020 | 129 comments

All of ConservativeHome’s 2020 fringe event videos in one place

Six members of Cabinet, more than 70 speakers, in 18 events, over three days, makes for over 22 hours of top-flight political insight and debate.

8 October 2020 | 3 comments

WATCH: Conservative Home at Party Conference. The Business Conversation with Sharma on small firms in the UK

The event was held in partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses – and discussed how make small business the centre of a post-Covid UK.

6 October 2020 | 2 comments

Today on the ConservativeHome online fringe: Wallace, Sharma, Scully, Davison and more

Today, we present two Secretaries of State, a former Chancellor and a host of other great speakers across six events.

By Mark Wallace | 5 October 2020

Our Cabinet League Table. The Prime Minister falls into negative territory.

It’s a rotten springboard from which to vault into Party Conference as it begins today. But what goes down may go back up.

By Paul Goodman | 3 October 2020 | 108 comments

The Conservative Party Conference programme – and which ministers are up and down

It’s speeches for Sunak, Patel and Raab; interviews in different formats for Gove, Hancock and others; while others still are relegated to panels…

By Charlotte Gill | 30 September 2020 | 5 comments

Johnson plummets into the bottom third of our Cabinet League table

Last month, he was sixth from top. Now, he is eighth from bottom. Only six Ministers have a satisfaction rating of more than half.

By Paul Goodman | 5 September 2020 | 169 comments

Henry Hill: Nationalists forced into u-turn on exam results as party divisions deepen

Also: Johnson makes ‘plea for the Union’ as he orders ministers to make more visits to Scotland and prevent the SNP taking credit for UK Government policies.

By Henry Hill | 13 August 2020 | 54 comments

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