Burnham’s reactionary stance is indicative of a broader problem: a would-be leader who can’t move on from battles lost, but has nothing new to add.
The SNP are trying to provoke noisy confrontations to deepen divisions they can exploit. Patience and politeness should be our weapons.
Most politicians at the top tend to become more like themselves over time (and not in a good way). But there are exceptions.
84 per cent of party members now expect another Conservative majority after the next general election.
We should make it our over-riding priority to seek “full ownership” of homes within a generation.
Unless we make the most of our surprise majority, we risk drifting into futility and ineffectiveness.
With so much real reform to pursue, it would be wrong to waste valuable time and political capital on battles the Government cannot win.
The Scottish Conservatives only held their single seat at the General Election, but do the 2016 and 2020 elections offer the prospect of breakthrough?
2020 will be Labour’s last chance to turn the clock back.
A Labour vote will, counter intuitively, not secure the UK’s place in the EU – in fact quite the opposite.
Conservatives in Parliament have no desire to return to the kind of entrenched division of a generation ago which was so destructive for our party and our country.