His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
Smashing the boundaries between social classes is exactly the reason to be a Conservative in local government. That is my message to my neighbours in Guildford.
The country may not be as classness as the national myth would have you believe, but it really is too small for a distinct caste to rule.
Love him or loathe him, many of his views are widely-held amongst the electorate and wildly under-represented in public life.
Katharine Birbalsingh’s departure gives the Commission an opportunity to focus on families, employers and colleges too.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
Last week, middle class voters told us in focus groups that they were incandescent; we expect to hear the same this week from working class voters.
While Muslims here feel comfortably British, French Muslims must conceal their religious convictions to be respectable citizens.
The final piece in our series on levelling up comes from our fortnightly columnist – as the White Paper looms.
Our regret that he is no longer in place is cancelled out by his own suggestion that he shouldn’t really have been doing his job at all.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
The intellectual heft of figures like him will be vital in ensuring that it moves forward, rather than languishing in the same ideological dead-ends that sunk it in the first place.