In the short-term, throwing everything at target seats makes sense. Over the longer, it is a recipe for weak outreach, social media failure and falling membership.
The 5.6 million of our fellow countrymen living overseas are a huge source of “soft power” – we should not be insulting them.
We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.
Chris Skidmore becomes Deputy Chair.
Chris Skidmore is Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. The cost and quality of childcare is an issue which touches millions of parents and families across the country. All parents want the best care for their children, and they also want it to come at […]
Chris Skidmore is Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. Over the past three years, Michael Gove’s tenure at the Department for Education has produced nothing short of a revolution in education, with no sign of slowing down: the introduction of free schools, controversial changes to […]
Chris Skidmore is Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. Figures released this week revealed the huge scale of six figure salaries amongst NHS managers and consultants. More than 7,800 were paid more than £100,000, with a third of them on salaries larger than the Prime […]
Chris Skidmore is Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. One of the many things that is being said of Baroness Thatcher in the light of her sad death last week, from across the political spectrum, is that she set the political landscape in which […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a Member of the Health and Education Select Committees. Follow Chris on Twitter. Following an extended period of silence Andy Burnham has finally stuck his head above the parapet on twitter, repeating predictions he first made in 2011 that the NHS is at death’s door. Only this […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a Member of the Health and Education Select Committees. Follow Chris on Twitter. The way in which history is taught in this country has long been in need of a radical change. That is the message delivered today by leading historians in an open letter to The […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a Member of the Health and Education Select Committees. Follow Chris on Twitter. For a party that will even take falling unemployment as an excuse to attack the government Labour have been deathly quiet in response to the shocking revelations about what went wrong in the […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a Member of the Health and Education Select Committees. He is also is author of Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) published on 23 May 2013. Follow Chris on Twitter. The tombs of our kings and queens are difficult to miss. Encased […]
Chris Skidmore is the Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a Member of the Health Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. We have long known that Britain is an ageing country where the amount spent on care is projected to rise continuously over the next decades. The Personal Social Services Research Unit’s modelling of future […]
Chris Skidmore is Member of Parliament for Kingswood and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Chris on Twitter. For many years, a political narrative has been woven in the belief that there is no alternative to European Union. The status quo must remain, while further integration into the European 'projet' must be seen as inevitable, […]