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Badenoch and her team are less woke, more wonk, when it comes to building a policy platform
Giles Dilnot
“Outside the Westminster bubble there is a kind of reverse intellectual snobbery about think-tanks but truly original thought and detailed new ideas are hard to come by. There’s plenty who shout louder who don’t bother with too much thinking.”
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Badenoch knew Patel’s record was disastrous. So why has she hugged her so close?
William Atkinson
“As the Shadow Foreign Secretary’s hopeless Sun interview showed, we can’t be under new management if voters see the same politicians defending the same appalling record that caused them to boot us out only six months ago..”
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We still need a UK Innovation Principle to free up our scientists and entrepreneurs
Alan Mak MP
“In future, we need a smart state (not Big Government) focused on creating the conditions for businesses to succeed, then stepping back to let our scients and entrepreneurs get on with the job.”
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David Willetts
“Plan on the basis that more people will go to university – as in just about every other advanced economy. Fund it properly out of increased fees. And promote it particularly amongst the group least likely to go at present – whit working-class young men.”
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Labour can intone their growth mantra all they like, but they won’t actually make it work
Daniel Hannan
“Taxes were at a 70-year high, the state accounted for 45 per cent of GDP, and the national debt stood at 100 per cent. So what did Reeves do? Did she try to return spending to where it had been in February 2020? Of course not. She went on a further tax and spending binge. ”
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Kitty Thompson
“Beavers have a lot to offer the UK. We should embrace the prospect of them roaming in our landscape, safe in the knowledge that, if something goes awry, a plan is already in place to deal with them humanely.”
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Net Zero, votes at 16, ‘who is the opposition?’, and how long will Labour last? My latest polling.
Lord Ashcroft
“My first major poll of the year finds plenty of complaints about the Government. A majority in my 5,000 sample say the expect it to be out at the next election.”
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“Seriousness” may not be enough to maintain Conservative Party unity
Harry Phibbs
“Ditching (or retaining) net zero as a policy will cause a split even if the final position comes via a hundred page report with lots of graphs. As will backing (or opposing) withdrawal from the ECHR, however many KCs offer eloquent endorsements. ”
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Book review: Politics is not just a battle between Cavaliers and Roundheads.
Andrew Gimson
“In his brilliant new work Dinshaw shows how friends fell out in the 1640s.”
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Reeves said nothing new. But at least, unlike Badenoch, she has something to say.
William Atkinson
“As welcome as the Chancellor’s change of tone after six months of doom and gloom might be, her pro-growth rhetoric doesn’t get a single shovel in the ground.”
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