Now the Coronavirus restrictions are lifting, it is time to focus on delivering what people voted for us to do, and double down on levelling up
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.
I called publicly for the collective award of the GC to the NHS fully 15 months ago – within a month of the nation going into its first lockdown.
And: Some Southern Tories worried about winning Batley and Spen. Plus: my Love Island experience.
But almost two in three respondents believe he’s handling the pandemic well. (Though that’s his lowest proportion since January.)
We risk falling back into a statist mindset – and should turn instead to the transformative power of civil society and faith communities.
Javid comes straight in at fifth place; Williamson’s score is in freefall; and the podium positions are unchanged.
What then went wrong for Honda is down to the bit that governments can’t help with: making things people actually want.
The circumstances of this contest were so unusual and the candidacies so atypical as to make wider lessons very hard to draw.
There are dozens of policies, tax changes and other levers that government can pull to climate proof our homes.
It’s partnered with a Blackburn-based educational trust responsible for the running of 30 free schools and academies.
And we’re all for a rebalancing – but Parliamentary government must mean Parliament in full, not just the executive.
That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.
Ministers run the very serious risk of under-estimating the strength of feeling among Conservative voters on this issue.
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.