She cannot be a stationary establishment figure when faced with the restless mood of the voting public. She must move forwards – or we risk a 1997-style wipeout.
The Conservative Party has long been the natural home of libertarians and classical liberals. That relationship might be about to get less comfortable.
The moral of the finding is that, regardless of the size of any majority, the Prime Minister must handle the economic liberals and free marketeers very carefully indeed.
My local experience as a constituency MP has been a reminder of how nationalisation failed and privatisation works.
The Prime Minister’s manifesto will have its flaws, but she has grasped the implications of Brexit more surely than any other senior politician.
A key problem for Farron’s party is that Labour is competitive among young people – many of whom have not forgiven it for tuition fees.
“I just feel worried. I don’t know if I would a hundred per cent want to vote for the Conservatives, because still emotionally I’m attached to Labour.”
May wants to break with the Thatcher tradition on controls, but there are risks from our old friend the law of unexpected consequences.
Those looking to find what she really stands for may one day get an answer. But the point for the here and now is: she seeks to dominate the mainstream.
Successful Singapore is simply copying what previous Conservative governments have done – namely, to deliver directly hundreds of thousands of new houses.
I feel we have gone too far in publishing and overly political manifestos which make it difficult to govern subsequently.
We must not allow Brexit to force us to make lucrative deals with repressive autocracies, even as they commit human rights violations and possible war crimes.
“Another woman Prime Minister sent a task force halfway across the world to protect another small group of British people against another Spanish-speaking country.”
It’s a day to think of the people who dreamed of it and the people who dreaded it alike. And to embrace the renewal of our democracy.
The Conservative Party will never be able to command an overall majority again if it doesn’t stop treating its grassroots like dirt.