A recent Conservative conference for the area found eagerness to discuss radical policies and to embrace innovative campaigning techniques. An encouraging sign for the local elections.
“We back aspiration and ambition. We want everyone, from every background, to be able to go as far as their talents and hard work can take them.”
He could have a future as a political commentator of unusual perceptiveness, who understands that everything is in flux.
Since ConservativeHome revealed the planned changes in November, concern has been growing among MPs and Party members.
Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.
Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”
The Conservatives need a strategy to dominate VR, a presence in voice-controlled tech and – yes – a ‘Maybot’ chatbot.
After months without any news, and mounting frustration among many activists, the first tranche of seats is being presented to the Board today for their approval.
There are plenty of possible ways the Party can expand its reach beyond the politically committed, but it shouldn’t neglect the simplest step.
That doesn’t just mean talking about it – it means putting it into practice both in Government and in how we run our own Party operations.
Simply pointing to our two female Prime Ministers does not deliver true meritocracy or equal representation.
The new Party Chairman says the current localised structure means he doesn’t know the total – but promises a figure “in future”.
Constituency parties can be so much more than cogs in the national machine – let’s empower them to play their part tackling local problems and poverty.
Clearing up the last few pieces of formal political inequality has taken a century, but every step was taken under a Conservative or Coalition government.
Since I last surveyed the political landscape in 2013 and 2014, some ruling tribes have been cast down, and some formerly lost tribes have risen to rule.