ConservativeHome will only be publishing six days a week. On Saturdays, we shall instead present a round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week.
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Andrew Gimson
“Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor, sat nodding and smiling beside her Leader, while perhaps contemplating how she could have given the PM a harder time.”
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My new book on the NHS – and what voters think about their favourite institution
Lord Ashcroft
“People tend to be risk-averse – one of our focus group participants referred to the “psychic assurance” that the NHS will always be there for them.”
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The Ukraine War Quad. Johnson, Sunak, Wallace – and Gove
Paul Goodman
“His Levelling Up Department is now all over refugee policy – not to mention the Union, the Sewell Report and equalities.”
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State capacity failure, not conspiracy, explains why the UK has been slow on individual sanctions
Henry Hill
“Administrative bottlenecks, a risk-averse institutional culture, and London’s famously litigious environment are all drag factors.”
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Paul Goodman
“His Levelling Up Department is now all over refugee policy – not to mention the Union, the Sewell Report and equalities.”
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Bercow was never fit to be Speaker, and MPs must shoulder a share of the blame for him
Henry Hill
“Guilty of bullying and banned for life from Parliament; a grim denouement to an abysmal term in the Chair.”
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Restoring confidence in policing will involve some hard choices
Lisa Townsend
“We need to be honest about what it is for and what it is not. Protecting life and property must come first.”
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Javid’s big healthcare speech. He spells out some home truths to the NHS.
Robert Ede and Sean Phillips
“Telling producer interest bodies that there won’t be more money is a difficult message to land. But this speech was clearly aimed at a bigger audience.”
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John C Hulsman
“Telling producer interest bodies that there won’t be more money is a difficult message to land. But this speech was clearly aimed at a bigger audience.”
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Sanctioning oligarchs. Here’s a guide to the emergency legislation we need.
Richard Ekins and Stephen Laws
“The solution is emergency legislation that lists in a schedule every Russian national who has been the target of EU and US sanctions.”