She refused to take the House into her confidence, claimed she has fixed the foundations, and if she hasn’t will have to go.
Neil Marten recognised it was an impossible job. Outspent and outgunned, it was also a divided campaign as relations between the combined anti-market organisations deteriorated. Nonetheless, he received great respect afterwards, Harold Wilson amongst those paying tribute to his leadership.
There might be a relative Conservative consensus on the EU now, but as recent years have shown almost anything can cause factions to emerge in the right conditions.
Inn crafting a policy platform, Kemi will need to demonstrate that the Tories have changed and to show that us Tories are ready for power again, Kemi needs a Clause IV moment to signal a clean break with the past.
The success of the policy groups rested on close collaboration between shadow ministers, external advisers, and think tanks. We helped them make a philosophical case so there would be understandable principles and objectives once in government.
With only a modest amount of support within the Party she was not expecting to win. Even her husband Dennis warned her that “you haven’t a hope. Heath will murder you.”
Meanwhile Farage offers the nation a faultless imitation of a cashiered major.
Sorry, Deputy Prime Minister, but the last thing local government should do is make sense to the man and woman in Whitehall, especially if its finances remain unreformed.
Historians now know that Wilson hesitated to remain Labour Leader following his 1970 defeat.
He not only ensured Margaret Thatcher’s victory, but he also talent-spotted future ministers such as Norman Tebbit, Nicholas Ridley, and Cecil Parkinson.
In London, Conservatives ended up with just nine MPs out of 75. In the London Assembly election just two months earlier, the Conservatives returned a much stronger eight assembly members out of 25.
The ex-Immigration Minister can say all the right things. But members will ask: is our Anglo Pierre Poilievre too good to be true? Is his “conversion to Conservatism” as genuine as Keith Joseph’s in 1974?
He recognised that dynamic political parties win power by seizing the high ground of intellectual discourse and then adapting the principles into practical policy solutions.
Margaret Thatcher probably wouldn’t be right for today, but when I think of the political pigmy now in No.10, I long for someone determined to put the Great back into Britain.