But Tory Democracy has triumphed for much of our history since Disraeli, and can before long be expected to triumph again.
And Tomlinson, Minister since last Thursday for Illegal Migration, demonstrates fighting spirit by seeing off Cooper.
We have become a party for whom the grotesque is the primary mode of communication. Just to reiterate, I’m not talking about policy or principle here, but a predilection for the odd and off-putting in presentation.
Gove, Cummings and the Federation of Conservative Students are also denounced for destroying her hero.
His critics think he is “a busted flush”: how eager he will be to demonstrate that he is, on the contrary, serious.
The audience loved this story of a Prime Minister who finds true love by taking long-term decisions for a brighter future.
If a mainstream candidate is needed, when next the Conservative leadership is contested, in order to stop some more ideological figure such as Kemi Badenoch, it is just possible that Cleverly might fit the bill.
The task of reaching small-c conservatives rests firmly with the Prime Minister.
The twenty-second article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
Dowden, standing in for Sunak, did not dare to be dull by telling us what this Government is for.
This book will delight many of those who see the Brexit PM as a disgrace.
The Prime Minister showed the resilience indistinguishable from shamelessness which all PMs require.
The odd thing about this author and hisĀ Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.