If the people who start businesses, innovate, and create jobs feel unwelcome, they won’t stick around. They’ll leave — taking their ambition and innovation with them.
We have announced plans to support our core vision of authentic conservativism across many areas of public policy. As the only political party unequivocally committed to standing up for the Union, our policies cover all of our United Kingdom.
As an activist out canvassing, if someone under forty-five answers the door my gut immediately assumes they won’t be voting Conservative. The hunch is usually right.
Freedom, opportunity, and aspiration for all people – whoever they are, and whatever their background: that is the Conservative message that resonates with the British people.
They are not against rich politicians, as long as any success is earned fairly. The Chancellor’s greater vulnerability is the cost-of-living crisis.
It feels like our Party has forgotten that even a broad church needs shared values on which its different wings and traditions can agree.
The Resolution Foundation’s new report is a serious piece of work, but its proposals to improve social care funding also bring political problems.
Research shows that investment in the early years of a child’s life is the most effective way to improve his or her long-term life chances.
From housing to university access, from the criminal justice system to the House of Commons, ethnic minority communities desire and deserve a fairer deal.
Those who turn a blind eye to MPs being labelled mutineers are playing with a fire which will eventually consume them too.
At a time when we have significant difficulties in explaining what we are about, having a ladder as a symbol (with hands around it), would give us that immediate recognition.
Aspiration is the calling card of an Opposition promising better days. Achievement is the product of a Government delivering them.
Conservatives should be speaking out on this not only because it is economically flawed, but because it stands in opposition to what we stand for. Supporting aspiration. Promoting work and achievement. The link between education, effort and opportunity.