Each week, our panel of John O’Sullivan, Rachel Wolf, Trevor Phillips, Tim Montgomerie and Marcus Roberts will analyse and assess what’s happening.
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
There may be greater willingness by Brussels to negotiate following populist successes in the European elections.
Disraeli defined conservatism as ‘love of country and an instinct for power’, and her successors should strive for her winning fusion of the two.
Patrick Bishop’s biography of Airey Neave, who in 1975 showed how to run a successful leadership campaign.
In his new book, Jeremy Black traces the history of Britain’s relations with the Continent, and how it bears on the Brexit debate.
That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.
Power seems to be seeping away from the ancien regime.
By refusing to consider the option of leaving without a deal, Conservative Ministers are essentially admitting defeat. And we deserve better than a defeatist political class.
A new study of the 2017 general election shows May failing to insist on a message and a manifesto which supported each other.
The process is hard and risky, but it still seems unlikely that the Labour Party would really torpedo an agreement in the last resort.
He may eventually be able to construct a case for return which, while tortuous, would not be beyond the reach of his powers of persuasion.
This unusual leader still evokes passions in his Party even decades after his surprise election victory.
The comedy and horror of Thorpe’s trial, and of the 1970s, are caught in this book and television series.
Yesterday’s emergency National Convention meeting was a reminder of the influence and power of the grassroots.