The ‘bins and council tax’ message which resonated in the local elections needs to be turned into a ‘public services, security and cost of living’ message nationally.
“The language should be that of giving people their chance to succeed and of being on their side – a “people politics” that many practice locally but which must be scaled up.”
The simultaneous creation and collapse of a new force has been written off an establishment failure. The truth is more interesting.
What about those who worship different gods, those who delight in civil rights movements, those mothers who want to go out to work?
We will have one shot at getting the revision of the Planning Framework right. This makes the next eighteen months critical for the Conservatives’ long-term future.
She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.
The Conservative Party has long been the natural home of libertarians and classical liberals. That relationship might be about to get less comfortable.
It’s past time that the record was set straight on the life and achievements of this remarkable Tory statesman.
A new fortnightly column from the former Education Secretary starts tomorrow.
Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.
The ideal is all the more necessary in a polity in which a plurality of just 30-something percent can win you virtually untrammelled power.
Both consumer price inflation and higher interest rates are needed.
These organisations have that strong public service ethos – but also employ the entrepreneurialism and commercial discipline of the private sector.
As possibly the only Brexiteer in the Parliamentary Party’s One Nation group, I am also only too aware that this message must be accompanied by a successful EU negotiation.