The Somerset MP strongly supports Theresa May, denies anti-Etonian prejudice in public life, and says a Catholic could perfectly well be PM.
Rethink how we build communities. Scrap Osborne’s tax on landlords. And give more people the chance to own their home.
An American scholar shows how British Conservatives welcomed universal suffrage, while German Conservatives were terrified of it.
Green, standing in for May, showed what an admirable caretaker leader he would make.
It was the brainchild of Rab Butler, set up to educate Tory members. 54,000 Conservative activists, agents and other students took courses.
It backed nationalisation in the ’40s. It opposed Thatcher’s economic policy in the ’80s. It supported the Euro in the ’90s. And now it wants Single Market membership.
By forcing the Prime Minister to talk about Economics for Beginners, the Leader of the Opposition has pushed her onto favourable ground.
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.
The lack of a stake in the system is pushing the political profile of the youngest tranche of workers towards that of students.
After negotiations with the rest of the EU have been completed, the final agreement must be brought back to Parliament.
As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.
During the 1980s, the electoral function of the SDP/Alliance was to help the Conservatives win. This does not necessarily hold true 30 or so years on.
The “modernisers” think that people with clear principles are cranks. In five years, they may find themselves queuing for food at their local Red Star state supermarket.
He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.