Polling shows the right’s combined vote share to be enough to oust Labour and install a Tory-Reform administration. But even if the personalities could agree and the politics navigated would this hypothetical alliance be as big as the sum of its parts?
Prosper UK wants to give voice to a yearning for politics that is serious, realistic, and pragmatic. Focused on the economy and willing to face up to trade-offs. That understands that business matters, as does credibility with investors.
“We have to step up and fast,” he says, as he urges the Government to increase spending on defence.
Fairness in housing cannot be achieved through slogans or sweeping decrees. It depends on trust, partnership, and a justice system that works efficiently for everyone. The Renters’ Rights Act risks undermining all three.
Offer a credible economic plan; demonstrate a determination to solve problems, not just exploit them; recognise that lessons have been learnt from the Tory time in office.
What if a new leader – Wes Streeting, say – wins the premiership, then goes to the country in 2029, on a promise to rejoin the EU customs union, maybe even the single market? Doesn’t that give most of the left a cause they can get fired up about?
It’ll feel a shorter road to May than the calendar suggests, all parties need to get on top of their equations and produce some credible solutions to our knotty problems.
The Liberal Democrat leader attacks Farage and calls on Starmer to intervene in dispute between BBC and US President.
Levelling up must resonate at the end of a farm track as much as in a city square. That means improveing rural infrastructure, clarity in farm policy, fair treatment in housing and planning, and recognition that food security is as strategic as energy or defence.
If a Tory candidate is reckoned more capable of beating Reform — as is plausible in parts of the country that were, until recently, True Blue — then tactical voting could make all the difference.
The Conservatives are responding after our general election loss by listening and acting on people’s concerns. Labour should try doing it before they lose power in May.
The political ‘series’, like the TV version is not over yet, it has – bar the utter implosion of Labour – a few more fraught years to run. The ‘obvious’ winners now, need to stay the obvious winners for another three years, and ‘a week is a long time in politics’.
I have long wanted to see a Conservative offer for young people and have advocated a £10,000 capital grant to help spread property ownership as council house sales and privatisation did.
Kemi Badenoch tells ConservativeHome’s Editor Giles Dilnot, what Conservatives can expect at Conference, how she understands frustrations with where the party is, how she feels about defections, Reform and Labour, and what her plan is to get back to government.
A party which is called Reform and which fails to reform is utterly redundant. Voters do not gift infinite patience to a movement defining itself in one way and carrying itself in another; the current Labour government, and the Conservative government before it, tell us that much.