Conservative Workers and Trades Unionists campaigns to ensure that we have the best policies for the rights, wages, and welfare of British working people.
There was a genuine sense of grievance that policy suggestions and campaigning ideas are never listened to.
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.
The most startling element is its one big dive outside the workings of the Tory machine: he wants the leader’s powers to draw up the manifesto to be reined in.
We pick out five items from it which may be of special interest to our readers and others who will attend.
All agree that something must be done. But everyone would prefer that someone else is the one to do it.
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They already elect their chairmen and there will be fewer trips abroad – at least when the Commons is sitting. That means more scrutiny of what Ministers are up to.
You may well hear grumbling from businesses about the levy which will help to fund them – but the effort will be worth it.
The MP for Enfield Southgate helped to sink tax credit and Sunday Trading changes – and now has eye on the Government’s housing benefit plans for young people.
Both the organisation and its critics have a mutual interest in suggesting otherwise.
The fortunes of those older sons provided capital for investment. And it was that capital, applied to invention and ingenuity, which made the industrial revolution possible.
The days are long gone when union leaders could do a good job for their members, while funding and influencing a political party.