Yesterday may yet come to be looked back on as the day the Starmer Government failed
Henry Hill
“Even if the Prime Minister and Chancellor grow wiser in office and realise stronger medicine is needed, they may not be able to deliver it, especially without having got their MPs buy-in via the election manifesto.”
—
William Atkinson
“We must choose which battles to fight and why, with one eye on tactical advantage and one on the national interest. Unused to opposition, this will take time.”
—
Commons Sketch: Starmer inaugurates an era of politics as pious performance
Andrew Gimson
“Now at last we have a Prime Minister with the moral seriousness to get things done: “no more wedge issues, no more gimmicks”. The time has come, he announced, to “turn the page on an era of politics as noisy performance”.”
—
NATO members must stop kicking the defence spending can down the road
Sarah Ingham
“Washington officials have been long been trying to persuade their greedy allies to stop free-riding and start paying their way.”
—
After this election, we must change our absurd leadership rules
Daniel Hannan
“The biggest problem is that you can win the post with the support of 30 per cent of the parliamentary party, but can’t hold it without the support of at least 50 per cent. That is an unstable position for any party leader.”
—
Opposing Labour’s planning overhaul would be easy, effective, self-harming, and morally wrong
David Gauke
“Just because pursuing NIMBYism will be the path of least resistance does not mean that it is the path that should be taken. We have just seen where it ends.”
—
Conservatives put veterans’ affairs in the Cabinet – why did Labour take it out?
Ben Obese-Jecty MP
“It remains to be seen how effective Labour’s inchoate veterans’ policy turns out to be. The absence of specific detail is a significant concern, as is the lack of representation at cabinet by the minister.”
—
Labour should use their majority to do something game-changing: increase MPs’ salaries
Luke Black
“If we can pay London’s Nightlife Tsar Amy Lamé £132,000 a year for posting a few tweets and painting a mural in Bromley, can we not pay the people who, you know, run the country, at least the same?”
—
We need to break the boys’ club to make Conservative selections a real meritocracy
Clare Golby
“It’s infuriating to see how those who contributed to our party’s downfall have been parachuted into the safer seats. This blatant disregard for merit and hard work beyond the chumocracy is deeply troubling.”
—
Our survey. A quarter of members back Badenoch for leader – but the race is wide open.
Henry Hill
“There is plenty of scope for the contenders to prove their worth to the membership and fight their way to the final two – and then to the leader’s office.”
The post Our top ten picks of the week appeared first on Conservative Home.
