Obviously the membership don’t set the strategy. But one wonders whether the Party might find it challenging to redeploy activists from seats that it (and only it) officially deems ‘safe’ to campaign in its fantasy marginals.
As his options narrow, Sunak has little choice but to get back to first principles, which would be the right course anyway.
His three big preoccupations are a bit remote from the public. But his new approach has one unmissable virtue to it – namely, that he really believes in it.
The Government’s failure to do anything about London’s housing crisis means the capital is now starting to export voters into its wide commuter belt.
The evidence from the local elections is not that the voters are abandoning the Tories to back Reform or Ukip , but parties of the centre and the left. Their situation is bad, but it can be made worse.
There’s a perverse tendency for doomed governments to play it safe. This approach didn’t save Stanley Baldwin or John Major, and won’t work now.
Forget the polls. Be honest about risk. Understand the English. Use scientists less. Deploy Sunak more. Drop the technical language and work with others.
The future was that we would be colour-blind. Instead, wokeism tells us we should see each other as members of different races.
Johnson needs a Simon Milton figure in government. The move would be controversial, to put it mildly. But who else is there?
The Treasury should hold one as the year rolls on, along the lines of that undertaken by Canada’s government during the 1990s.
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The political logic of the Prime Minister’s choice is solid enough. But we’re past the stage where his Sunday statement can simply be taken on trust.
The schism between between Tory Eurosceptics and Europhiles has been overcome; now another divide must be healed.
“Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential” was the 2019 slogan. The first was achieved in short order. The second is yet to be delivered.