Instead of a Conservative housing policy that emphasises home ownership and architectural beauty, it will now be done the Labour way. When tower blocks start rising over the Home Counties, I hope that our remaining MPs realise their mistake.
The number of possibilities teaches us three lessons about politics today. Firstly, never to underestimate the role played by mere chance. Secondly, that this is not an age of great leaders who make their own luck. And, thirdly, that we need to choose more carefully in future.
Over the last 50 years of British political history, there have been precisely two occasions when the established order was challenged and defeated: the Thatcher revolution, and Brexit. In both instances, the agent of change was the Conservatives.
The fact remains that the broad thrust of climate policy enjoys strong support from voters. YouGov polling shows that ULEZ is a rare example of an unpopular environmental measure.
AfD doesn’t need to win the next election to trigger a meltdown – just keep its national support rising toward the 25 per cent mark, where the mathematics of building stable coalition governments stops working.
We all have an interest in the truth. Knowing how this all started won’t bring anyone back, but it could prove vital to preventing the next pandemic.
Our representatives are so bogged down with super-councillor make-work that they don’t have time to focus properly on national issues.
The alternative to stagnation is not turning the South of England into the next Houston or Tokyo. We need to choose where develops, and how.
At the local level, they are well on their way to major-party status – and it’s in cracks in the Blue Wall that they’re growing most vigorously.
Since 2010, the Party has a truly terrible record of retaining its reformers – especially those capable of understanding and reshaping the structures of government.
His laudable focus on immediate priorities cannot forever excuse failing to address the big strategic challenges facing Britain.
Sensible regulation is essential, but to cede the initiative to America, the EU, and China would be an historic folly.
High standards of governance helped the City establish itself as a global centre for finance. We should seek to make of the digital pound another trusted institution.
A timely report – from Ed Balls, no less – suggests that a lack of graduates is not the reason for our productivity deficit. Rather, our productivity deficit explains the lack of graduate-level jobs.