In January the Prime Minister honoured a long-standing Conservative manifesto commitment of establishing ‘votes for life’ to British nationals living overseas.
The reality is that a ‘You Can’t Trust Labour’ message can be soundly founded and vigorously pursued.
In the long term, AI opens on many opportunities for society. But the risk of harm is more significant than ever. Bad actors will use this year’s elections to practice and improve their anti-democratic campaigns.
The Conservative MP for Bournemouth East adds that he would stay in the Conservatives if Nigel Farage became a member.
Just one term after the Ardern landslide in 2020, it has caught New Zealand leftists off guard. But history suggests they should have expected it.
If the Party obtained the councillors in those areas where their vote merited it, it would mean more Tory representatives on the ground, and voters seeing them serving their communities.
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 upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
Local associations want to be able to select parliamentary candidates as early as possible. I completely agree. Therefore, I am delighted to announce that the first tranche of constituencies is being advertised today.
Sunak will hope he is spared a crisis, even if the electoral politics of it could be advantageous.
He scores better than Starmer in the best Prime Minister stakes, and Labour’s position looks less entrenched than during the mid-1990s – but other good news is very hard to find.
With 16 years of opposition experience on the Council, I have some idea of how to hold an administration to account and I will continue to do this over this council term.
The ability to put politics aside and deprioritise it is fundamentally good. Not caring about politics is a luxury usually reserved for people in well-run democracies.
The tribal gladiator fights between the different groups of society can be excruciatingly tedious. But this is the way of the world and part of every recalibration process.