Our Survey: Badenoch backed on candidates and the party not running in Clacton
Giles Dilnot
80 per cent of Conservative members think it’s right to hold new candidates to supporting the party policy on net-zero and the ECHR, and 73.4 per cent backed the decision not to field a candidate in the upcoming Clacton by-election.
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Clacton could prove a pyrrhic victory for Farage
Oliver Dean
Whilst Farage parades around the Clacton Leisure Centre, tooting his own horn and boasting that he has the establishment on the run, rival parties should very much prepare for a future contest. That, above all else, should be the takeaway from today’s foregone conclusion.
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Universal healthcare will die if the NHS does not change
Matthew Jeffery
The NHS is not failing because hospitals are weak. It is failing because the system behind them is breaking down. Until Britain rebuilds social care, every promise to save the NHS will remain another expensive illusion.
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The true cost of Labour’s green fanaticism
Arthur Reynolds
Kemi Badenoch is right to keep those who share this warped worldview well away from the Conservative Party. Should they wish to pursue the folly of net zero, Ed Davey’s circus is always looking for new performers.
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If Burnham was serious about decentralising power he’d give it to an English parliament
Peter Franklin
Devolution to Scotland and Wales hasn’t exactly been a rip roaring success. That’s true, but then England isn’t Scotland or Wales — and it’s about time our constitution reflected that fact.
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The Prisons crisis is a classic example of the dangers of not knowing how to count
John Oxley
Arithmetic doesn’t care which party is in office. Politicians who cannot bring themselves to run the numbers forward, on prisons or anything else, will keep meeting their future as a crisis, whoever happens to be standing there when it arrives. Breaking that cycle will provide electoral advantages, but also policy ones.
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Upholding our Conservative values at the Local Government Association
Sam Chapman-Allen
We will never hesitate to oppose positions which are antithetical to Conservative values and that the views and interests of Conservative councils and councillors are central to everything we do.
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Westminster City Council has declared war on the Great British pub
Lucy Rogers
The British public have stood in pubs for so long that it has become an archetypal feature of our social scene. To throw this tradition in the growing pile of fun things banned by government would be a catastrophic assault on British culture.
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Lord Ashcroft
My latest poll looks in detail at early impressions of Andy Burnham as prime minister: whose side is he on, does he have a plan, what do people make of his ideas, and where should the money come from?
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Here’s how the Tories win back young women
Isabella Link
If the Conservative Party wants to win back young female voters, it must demonstrate visibly that the party is willing to speak out for young women and make conservatism fashionable again.
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