He or she should particularly highlight the fact that Labour’s traditional voters are being hurt most by high crime levels.
It ought to be focused on those areas that the public really care about and where it can meaningfully offer useful policy ideas.
Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.
Shortlists for Enfield North, Bishop Auckland, Darlington, York Central, Tynemouth, Hyndburn and Great Grimsby, and partial shortlists for Tatton and Chelmsford.
A new account of Labour’s disastrous campaign provides fresh insights for Tory strategists on what we did right and where we can do better.
Intellectual property law fosters innovation and benefits patients, but more effective enforcement is needed to keep disputes out of the courts.
The long-standing ConHome contributor is one of a series of newly chosen candidates.
JP Floru is a Westminster Councillor, Senior Research Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute and writer of Heavens on Earth – How to Create Mass Prosperity When this morning the BBC’s Today Programme gave abundant publicity to a professor who believes that property thieves should not be sent to prison, I had some difficulty classifying […]
Peter recently founded the Centre for Crime Prevention, a new campaign for the proper use of prisons and front line policing. Follow Peter on Twitter. It's not often one gets through a media debate on prisons without hearing a particular trope: "Prison should be reserved for serious, repeat offenders." Well, maybe, but as Nick Herbert […]
Peter Cuthbertson is a Conservative activist and occasional blogger. He works in public affairs. Follow Peter on Twitter. Beat policing works. It was this conviction that led me to investigate for the TaxPayers' Alliance how well each police force in England and Wales performs in getting its officers out on the streets in visible roles. […]
Follow Peter on Twitter. Let no one fear for the future of investigative journalism. We now know that Chris Heaton-Harris doesn't like onshore wind turbines. No wonder the Guardian is crowing about this fantastic scoop. Okay, there's a bit more to the story than that. Heaton-Harris, one of the real rising stars of the 2010 intake, […]
Peter Cuthbertson reviews the new edition of "Chavs" by Owen Jones, which was released last month. Owen Jones’ Chavs is worth reading. This acerbic book also includes enough new arguments that it demands a response from conservatives explaining where it goes awry, which it certainly does. Chavs is profoundly wrong – both as sociology and policy. […]
With each victory that militant secularism celebrates, Conservatives should feel obliged by our principles and electoral necessity to defend religious liberty.
Including contributions from Andrew Boff, Natalie Elphicke, Mark Field MP, Alan Mak MP, Sean Worth and Zehra Zaidi.