I am used to people trying to tell me what I can’t do, and I’m used to proving people wrong. I know that our party can fix the problems the nation faces.
Britain Beyond Brexit, a New Conservative Vision for a New Generation, is published today by the CPS.
Years of sound economic management give the Government space to invest in public services, working families, and rebalancing the British economy.
Plus a sixth, less formal, question: are they ridiculous?
“The disenchantment of the traditional working class with the left clearly creates an opportunity for the right.”
Instead, the Party must demonstrate how the Labour leader as Prime Minister would raise living costs and damage public service.
Onward’s excellent report poses some tough questions and choices. The dilemma which the 2017 election manifesto tried to confront has not gone away.
At the same time, my research shows some of the hurdles any theoretical new movement will have to cross if it is to survive contact with reality.
The party’s Vice Chairman for Policy was being pressed on police cuts.
Without a boost to infrastructure and local services, it will not be possible to increase the housing supply.
The new group’s platform is not very inspiring. But its biggest problem is it they won’t be very different from the Conservatives’.
Trashing last Friday’s event is doubtless fun for Conservative commentators, but not the right course at all for the Conservative Party.
We need to take a dynamic new approach to our High Streets with ambitious thinking. The future is not just retail.
I have reluctantly concluded that there needs to be greater regulation of the veracity of claims made by registered participants in political campaigns.
It is certainly not the Brexit that people voted for. As Bill Clinton might have said about the main issue: It’s the Sovereignty, Stupid!