The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
This was a two horse race between the winner and Suella Braverman – 174 votes to 124 votes. Penny Mordaunt came third with 85 votes.
Just as with immigration, there is a limit to what even the most combative minister can do if the legislative and institutional factors underpinning an issue are not addressed.
Brexit is neither the source of nor the solution to Britain’s economic ills. Current rows over trade flows simply produce a lot of heat and very little light.
The rage, frustration and contempt of its terms are a foretaste of what’s to come if the Conservatives lose the next election.
Gove, Cummings and the Federation of Conservative Students are also denounced for destroying her hero.
Whether you see the glass as still half-empty, rather than half-full, the question we all face is the same one. If we are starting from here, now, can we imagine again a sense of the future that we do want to share?
Badenoch called for more risk and less intervention, and described how the tide was turned against Stonewall.
if you look at the odds for the next Conservative leader, there are no white men among the front runners. The top five comprise Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
“Let Labour bend the knee before this altar of intolerance, we will keep building a country that is in every way stronger and fairer for all,” adds the Business Secretary.
We need a vast expansion in the opportunities for people to become property owners in the UK. Policy Exchange’s The Property Owning Democracy is a blueprint for achieving precisely this.