The Minister who only just became a Conservative
The legacy of past disorganisation in our Party’s machine even affects those at the top.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Johnson the liberator tells the Tories there can be a better Brexit
He raised his listeners’ spirits in a way that no other speaker at this tepid and uncertain conference has managed.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Javid on how Enoch Powell lost a generation of ethnic minority voters
The Home Secretary also spoke of the vital need to fix the housing crisis.
Bridges in Birmingham
This strangely unreal conference is a kind of passage between the stymied Chequers plan…and whatever happens next.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Those who have no stomach for Hammond’s fight go to sleep
The Chancellor of the Exchequer dared to be dull as he set out the economic facts of life and stuck to the Chequers plan.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Williamson declares that British forces are no longer in retreat
The Defence Secretary outlined a programme of national self-assertion from Ukraine to the South China Sea.
Our Next Tory Leader survey. Javid is up and Johnson down slightly – but the latter retains a double-figure lead.
No other entrant has more than ten per cent of the vote, though Hunt is almost there.
Andrew Gimson’s Conference Sketch: Hunt presents himself as the candidate with perfect manners
But he also managed to compare the European Union to the Soviet Union.
Let’s make a virtue of necessity – and transform this conference into a festival of creative destruction
This week, the Party has a chance to turn Brexit, a trouble-plagued leadership, and directional uncertainly from problems into an opportunity.
Cabinet League Table: Javid is top again – just. He leads a soaring Hunt by a single point.
The Foreign Secretary’s score is up by 20 points. Grayling now brings up the rear – and Bradley is in the red.
Our survey. Eight out of ten Party members say that May should go either now or before the next election.
There is cold comfort for Downing Street in these findings as Party Conference looms in Birmingham next week.
ConservativeHome’s new monthly survey is out. Who should be the next Tory leader?
Plus: Should the Prime Minister resign? If so, when? What will the result of the next election be? How are Cabinet ministers performing?
“Official and significant”. The ERG declares that it will vote against Chequers.
Francois “was chosen specifically to send a signal from one of life’s natural whips to the current ones,” we are told.
Hunt looks east to Japan…and west to Canada
He’s been known to ponder the way in which Singapore and Israel developed relatively quickly and with few assets – and draw lessons from their experience.
White Flag or Union Flag?
As our proprietor and his co-author prepare to release a new book on defence, we say again what we’ve said before about the implications of Brexit for the armed forces.