As Ed Miliband learned in 2015, it doesn’t matter how popular your policies are individually if voters don’t buy into your broader offer.
After 13 years in government, the right needs to ask itself hard questions. But who will do the asking?
“A spiteful, angry tone to a report – as his allies are alleging – doesn’t change the material that it found.”
We see the pendulum swinging towards stricter morality and rules, upheld by the dull, the prudent and the reputable.
He is a Hillingdon Borough Councillor, representing South Ruislip – and is also a Deputy Chairman of Uxbridge & South Ruislip Conservative Association.
It indicates that his conduct since stepping down as an MP is why the sanction is so severe – but doesn’t tell us, beyond being sufficient to trigger a recall, what the original would have been.
They recommend a 90-day suspension and that he be refused the parliamentary pass customarily afforded to former MPs.
The Speaker and the leader of the Scots Nats both rebuked Sunak for giving irrelevant and frivolous non-answers.
if there are going to be political peers at all, there needs to be some connection to democratic politics. Allowing the parties to nominate peers is that link.
Our editor speaks to the Today programme about how the Conservative Party should handle the former prime minister.
Deliver on the economy, make life feel affordable, and ensure people can get a hospital appointment, and that 2019 coalition, might just be prepared to give the Tories a second look.
The conference exhibited scepticism about levelling up and widespread enthusiasm for devolution – but less cognisance of the trade-offs it entails.
Trust the people is a good Conservative maxim. That should include trusting our members.
The organisation cannot decide if it is a genuine campaiging entity, a Boris Johnson love-in, or simply a talking shop for the perpetually disgruntled.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.