If the new leader wants to win again, go local, now
Giles Dilnot
“Underestimating the importance of local government to a Conservative recovery would be a huge mistake.”
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Badenoch maintains her lead in our final leadership survey
Henry Hill
“She and Robert Jenrick are about as far apart as they were when we started doing head-to-head questions two months ago.”
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Have the British public had enough of Tory Boys?
William Atkinson
“Is Michael Gove right to suggest that Robert Jenrick is hampered by his looking like too much of a traditional Tory politician?”
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PMQs sketch: Rayner and Dowden play politics as a rom com
Andrew Gimson
“Evasive frivolity replaced accountability.”
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Daniel Hannan
“Whomever emerges as successful will face a serious problem. How do you sell free-market politics to an electorate that recoils in alarm from the only possible cure, namely lower spending?”
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Labour is in the trap, but it awaits the Conservatives if we return to office unprepared
David Willetts
“They face the eternal dilemma of British politics: voters wants a big welfare state, but aren’t willing to vote for the taxes to fund it.”
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Andrew Griffith MP
“Rachel Reeves is breaking promises like a runaway horse charging through the jumps in the Grand National.”
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The Conservatives need a leader of rare quality – for me that’s Badenoch
Lord Ashcroft
“She has sensibly avoided specific prescriptions and promises, correctly judging that they follow from the deeper thinking the party must do on the British state and what it is for.”
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Jenrick’s focus on housing, immigration, and the economy will win back young voters
Liam Downer-Sanderson
“We trust his focus on the issues, his record of results, and his clear and calm command of the solutions that this country needs.”
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How the contenders what you to vote may have a dollop of Aesop about it
Giles Dilnot
“One aspect about this latter stage of the race is the psychology behind how Jenrick and Badenoch have tried to persuade members to put the cross in their respective named box on the ballot.”
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