Don’t be complacent – Reform is bigger than Farage
Oliver Dean
Complacency and arrogance is, in part, why we are in opposition at the moment, and why we risk being consumed by Reform if we do not get our act together. It is imperative that such a mindset does not plague the party once again.
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Ridicule, Reform, and Recall – the dangerous political power of laughter
Giles Dilnot
If Farage does beat a bin, and a fox, in an odd mirror of the count at Makerfield just to get his old job back – the result will be rubbish, if the Standards Committee simply carries on the investigation, suspends him, a recall ballot is held, and we end up doing it all over again.
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Burnham’s devolution plans won’t work
David Gauke
This, I repeat, is not an argument against devolution. But it is an argument for a hard-headed devolution that considers local responsibility to be more important than regional equality, and makes the tough argument that we have to live with the local consequences of devolved decisions.
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The country doesn’t want to be misled it wants to be levelled with – so tackle the triple lock
Andy Street
Do I want to punish older generations? No. The parties leading the polls have decided the way to win is to promise that nothing hard will ever be asked of anyone. This is a dead end, and the pensions triple lock has become the clearest test of whether a politician will level with people.
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There’s a lot of groups the Conservatives need to tap into more and academia is one of them
Daniel Pitt
Yes, the vast majority of academics in our country are on the left of the political spectrum, and they were, and still are, against Brexit. Yet, there are a few academics who are of a conservative persuasion, and the party must tap into this pool of talent.
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Britain’s economic dictatorship isn’t run by generals. It’s run by employment tribunals
Claire Coutinho
We need a reset which puts power back in the hands of the people. Restoring meritocracy and common sense is at the heart of the work Kemi Badenoch has asked me to do as Shadow Equalities Minister, and we will shortly be setting out our plan to achieve it.
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Burnham compared to Starmer, should there be an election, and what do we think of Restore Britain?
Lord Ashcroft
My latest poll looks at expectations of Andy Burnham, whether there should be a leadership election, when the next general election should happen, the most important issues facing the country and voters’ attitudes to Restore Britain.
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We need to welcome back any Reform voters who left us but shut the door hard on defectors
Liam Bones
Conservative voters who lent Reform their support can and should be won back. We need millions of them if we are to form a government again. But voters are one thing. Political opportunists are another. Rebuilding requires more than bigger numbers. It requires better people.
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Andrew Murrison
Britain does not need more sensitive foreign policy. It needs a robust and serious one. We can acknowledge our history without being imprisoned by it. We can act ethically without surrendering strategically. But we cannot continue with a diplomatic service that seeks absolution where it should be seeking advantage.
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Badenoch reacts to Farage resigning as an MP to stand again in by-election
The Conservative leader says she doesn’t have to jump to the beat of Nigel Farage’s drum, and he’ll find out what the party will do in their own time as she sits down for questions with Politico’s Anne McElvoy.
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