He says that road haulage interests are trying to revive the pre-Brexit economy – but that the Government will stand firm for higher wages.
David Skelton catalogues the snobbish abuse heaped by progressive intellectuals on workers in neglected towns.
His first premiership was accidental and cut extremely short by Gladstone – but ‘Dizzy’ did manage to make the Queen a Tory.
A new study by Anthony Seldon of the office of Prime Minister gives too little credit to the many among its 55 holders whom he dismisses as failures.
This book exemplifies the addiction to indignant moralising which blinds so many political commentators to the true nature of their own country.
From Wellington to Johnson, this institution has managed to keep itself at the heart of Tory politics.
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.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
A magisterial survey of conservatism since the French Revolution brings home how various it is, and how impossible to reduce to an ideology.
Superior pundits fail to see the Prime Minister’s debt to Disraeli, and consider Johnson such a scoundrel they underestimate his chances of success.
The Chairman of the 1922 Committee’s Executive is an enemy of rule by decree and a stern upholder of parliamentary scrutiny
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.
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.
He believed Conservatism is not a political system, but “a way of looking at civic social order.”