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Posts Tagged: Benjamin Disraeli

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson beams like a schoolboy who has got his hands on an enormous cake

Like his most witty and nimble predecessor, Disraeli, Johnson finds that a majority is always better than the best repartee.

By Andrew Gimson | 30 December 2020 | 13 comments

What Thatcher’s response to the AIDS crisis teaches us about tackling the present pandemic

The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.

By Andrew Gimson | 1 December 2020 | 11 comments

Dean Godson: It’s easier for the right to move left on economics than for the left to move right on culture. That’s a plus for Johnson.

The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

By Dean Godson | 21 November 2020 | 17 comments

From Disraeli to Johnson, the Left has never understood the Right, and Fawcett shows us why

A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.

By Andrew Gimson | 31 October 2020 | 38 comments

Johnson believes faith in the nation can unite lifelong Tories and traditional Labour supporters

Superior pundits fail to see the Prime Minister’s debt to Disraeli, and consider Johnson such a scoundrel they underestimate his chances of success.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 October 2020 | 141 comments

Profile: Graham Brady, who played a quiet part in deposing May, and now keeps a watchful eye on Johnson

The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny

By Andrew Gimson | 24 September 2020 | 39 comments

Bill Cash: We would be within our rights to override the Withdrawal Agreement. And in any event, the EU itself is a law-breaker.

Look, too, at the track record of EU Member States. In 2020, Germany’s highest court ruled on subordinating EU law to German law. The EU took no action.

By Sir William Cash | 21 September 2020 | 204 comments

Johnson benefits from the scorn of critics such as Parris, for it suggests the Prime Minister is still an outsider

I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 July 2020 | 127 comments

Dan Pitt: In spite of this pandemic, constitutional reforms remain a high priority for Conservatives

Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.

By Daniel Pitt | 15 June 2020 | 90 comments

Disraeli the anti-prig tells us far more about Johnson than Churchill does

Disraeli’s impudence and audacity, demonstrated in this collection of his sayings, cast light on the present Prime Minister’s conduct.

By Andrew Gimson | 30 May 2020 | 68 comments

Iain Dale: Hancock’s testing day – and why the difference between a target and a pledge matters

Plus: In my view, there is no case at all to merit a decision to do anything other than keeping the lockdown, maybe with a few tweaks.

By Iain Dale | 1 May 2020 | 78 comments

A book which sees the ultra-liberals as a threat. But doesn’t recognise that they’re not having it all their own way.

The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 March 2020 | 62 comments

Conservatism is dying: the liberals have won

Ed West describes in his new book how the Left has established “a moral monopoly”. It describes the mentality of a Tory who will not be imprisoned in a system.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 March 2020 | 165 comments

Profile: Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor who stands between the judges…and the wrath of the Brexiteers

The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.

By Andrew Gimson | 26 February 2020 | 50 comments

Ed McGuinness: To be One Nation Conservatives means winning over Londoners too

Many of those who self-identify as being on the Left also back key Conservative policies.

By Ed McGuinness | 19 February 2020 | 13 comments

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