How is Labour going to prop up the university sector without public money? Immigration, probably.
Henry Hill
“In the long term this approach causes problems, not least of which is continually importing a population the size of Glasgow (and rising) into this country’s chronic housing crisis.”
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A leadership beauty pageant could make this year’s party conference once for the history books
William Atkinson
“If the final four are likely to be Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, and A N Other, the timetable proposed by the 1922 Committee yesterday looks set to ensure good sport.”
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PMQs sketch: Starmer’s possession of the moral high ground makes him monarch of all he surveys
Andrew Gimson
“The Prime Minister has inaugurated a reign of virtue, and as yet has no record against which his pious declarations can be measured.”
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Britain should pay for children on the same terms that it pays for pensioners
Miriam Cates
“As this country has socialised the cost of old age, we have privatised the costs of having children. This is philosophically inconsistent and economically incoherent.”
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Keith Joseph – the Conservative MP who converted to Conservatism
Adrian Lee
“He recongised that dynamic political parties win power by seizing the high ground of intellectual discourse and then adapting the principles into practical policy solutions.”
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The Greens pose a general threat to the Conservatives’ heartlands
Peter Franklin
“Give the Grim Reaper another decade to do his sombre work, and the young tenants of London another ten years to flee their grasping landlords, and the electorates in our safest areas will be transformed.”
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Conservatives naturally want to conserve, but we all know the Party needs to adapt to survive
James Cleverly MP
“We must clean up our act and make people proud to support us again, and must recognise and empower our members, activists, and supporters.”
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The evidence is overwhelming that early release of prisoners will endanger the public
David Green
“But with such a large majority the Government can safely ignore inconvenient evidence. If the voters don’t like it, they will have to wait another five years until the next election.”
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The Conservatives need to seize back control of their values
Igraine Gray
“We win elections when we tell a story of a path to success, firmly rooted in Conservative ideas and solutions, and continue to tell that story as we make that journey long after polling day.”
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Henry Hill
“Ideas cannot be ignored altogether. We need to press the candidates on policy, and not just on whether we like individual proposals but whether or not their proposals cohere into a clear-eyed programme for government.”
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