“The language should be that of giving people their chance to succeed and of being on their side – a “people politics” that many practice locally but which must be scaled up.”
Supporters of a new pro-free trade think-tank will be told that Tories are all behind them in principle. But…
Two cheers for a measure that, though mostly about managing, dividing and taming popular opinion, remains a reforming landmark.
Behind his languid exterior lay a man of unusual principle, to whom all Conservatives have cause to be grateful.
Charismatic, Oxbridge-educated, hailed as the man of destiny – is it too late for Johnson to learn from Portillo’s failure?
Too often, we still take our democratic rights for granted.
She never wanted to be a one-term Prime Minister. But the voters have spoken – and now she must make a virtue of her circumstances.
Here are four rules to guide us all through the next few years, including: don’t die unless you have a majority of over 25,000.
As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.
The “modernisers” think that people with clear principles are cranks. In five years, they may find themselves queuing for food at their local Red Star state supermarket.
Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.
This election follows a referendum that strained, and in some cases shattered, party loyalties. The Prime Minister ought now to be building her own big tent.
It’s past time that the record was set straight on the life and achievements of this remarkable Tory statesman.
We must follow the example of Beveridge, Butler and Willink.