Giles Dilnot
“All four leadership candidates want the Party to come together and the cold heard reality outside the Tory bubble is that the public are tired of disunited parties, whatever colour the rosette.”
—
Could Reform UK overtake the Conservatives?
Harry Phibbs
“The lengthy Conservative leadership contest means that not only is the Government getting a bit of a free run but so is Reform UK.”
—
Starmer went to Rome and stole some more of the Conservatives’ clothes
Andrew Gimson
“The PM laid claim to Tory “pragmatism” and became Meloni’s new best friend in the struggle against “irregular migration”.”
—
This conference, can the candidates channel Cameron in 2005, and upend the leadership race?
Peter Franklin
“There’s no guarantee that history will repeat itself, but the 2024 hopefuls would be wise to ask what so went for Cameron and so badly for Davis.”
—
The Conservatives cannot just hope to profit from Labour’s mistakes
John Oxley
“We need to win back voter trust and show that we have the answers to the problems they care about. This means getting ahead of where Labour are likely to falter and having answers and alternatives ready to go.”
—
Stop slating our members. Their decision-making process is not as binary as many think.
Paul Athans
“Simply assuming the next leader of the Conservative Party will be whoever in the final two is the more ‘right-wing’ is an insult to our membership. They are much more intelligent and prescient than most commentators give them credit for..”
—
Stop claiming Britain is America when looking at divisions within communities here
Tom Jones
“It may feel good to decry Donald Trump, but – unbelievably – it must be pointed out that Britain is not America. It does no good to pretend that we are trying to solve the problem we’d like to have instead of the problems we actually do.”
—
Growth, not immigration, is the answer to Britain’s long-term debt woes
Karl Williams
“As the OBR has now made clear, government ministers and Treasury mandarins need to be thinking much more carefully about the fiscal downsides of immigration.”
—
A very slow handclap for Labour’s recent hypocrisy
Giles Dilnot
“It’s an unedifying game of: “I see your wallpaper and raise you clothing. I point at your pay and now raise mine. I condemn your use of something I intend to use myself.”
—
The Conservative approach to penal reform
Harry Phibbs
“More criminals need to be locked up, for a longer period. But we also need to do far more to reduce the reoffending rate and to break the generational conveyor belt that increases the probability of children growing up to be criminals in the first place.”
The post Our top ten picks of the week appeared first on Conservative Home.
