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Burnham is less 'same-same but different' - as same same same
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....
Like most other recent PMs, Sunak got to the top without serving a proper apprenticeship
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1222+ words) Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton This book makes one think the better of Rishi Sunak. We are reminded of his high gifts and honourable conduct. Here is a statesman who felt a…...
Liam Halligan: We have to get out of this high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop
3+ day, 55+ min ago (1093+ words) Liam Halligan is an economist, author and broadcaster and the newly announced Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. I’m a natural optimist – and remain convinced that Britain is still a great place to live and work. This country still…...
Do Reform want to win?
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (597+ words) As is almost always the case, I was, yet again, proven right. In all honesty, it’s fast becoming a trend that I am growing tired of. Repeatedly, I have to shoehorn ‘I told you so’ into conversations at the pub....
James Windsor-Clive: When did Britain take its eye of the ball when it comes to risk-appetite?
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (1083+ words) James Windsor-Clive was the Conservative candidate for the Ealing Central and Acton at the 2024 general election. The UK is in the doldrums. Incomes have stagnated for the best part of two decades, and people have little hope of fortunes improving....
PMQs - Badenoch and Burnham clash over defence spending, again, with point scoring back on both sides
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (71+ words) The Prime Minister outlined 'the Labour way' of funding defence, the Leader of the Opposition told him not only was he wrong, but he simply doesn't know where he's getting the money for any of his plans defence or otherwise....
James Esses: At last - we are a Conservative party in name and nature
4+ day, 55+ min ago (430+ words) Cllr James Esses represents High Barnet Ward on Barnet Council and a prospective parliamentary Candidate. I recently discovered a new word in a fiery game of Scrabble against my wife (don’t judge – I have a newborn son and Scrabble is…...
Annunziata Rees-Mogg: Feelings are not an economic plan
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (920+ words) There was something revealing about John Healey’s speech on Monday. At a moment when Britain desperately needs an economic strategy, the Chancellor offered something closer to economic cognitive therapy: retraining us to believe that if growth feels possible, it will…...
Stewart Harper: Mountain to climb, but with three parties, single digits apart - 2029 is genuinely ours to win
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (157+ words) Stewart Harper is Vice President of the National Conservative Convention, and sits on the Board of the Party. We are moving to be in a genuinely battle-ready state for whenever the General Election comes. Meanwhile our opponents are not in…...
Brandon To: We didn???t cut too much. We cut too stupidly.
5+ day, 55+ min ago (942+ words) Brandon To is a Politics graduate from UCL and a Hong Kong BN(O) immigrant settled in Harrow Black paint had been thrown across the walls and windows of several homes in Harrow. This was not a bit of graffiti on…...