If you believe in this idea of conservatism; if you want new faces at the table; if you share these ambitions, then please say so.
The Prime Minister looked as if she was merely going through the motions.
History shows that One Nation Conservatism, once espoused by Powell and Macleod, need not be wet.
‘Liberal democracy’ is not an inevitable combination. Nor, it seems, is it necessarily a sustainable one.
The Prime Minister is also astute enough to get Gove to make the case for Meaningful Vote Three.
Bower writes him off as a loser, which is perhaps what he will end up being. But he did much better at the last general election than the commentariat expected.
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
The former Justice Minister writes an open letter to a young activist, urging her to reconsider her defection to the Liberal Democrats.
A list of new Tory Reform Group patron MPs suggests that it is stronger in the Commons than it may look.
This ambitious 39-year-old is grappling valiantly with the Leveson problem, and no one does a better digital transformation.
He made grotesque errors of taste and judgement – see “Rivers of Blood”. But even his critics admit that he was one of the great parliamentarians of the 20th century.
Part of settling down and marking time, as Roger Scruton would say, is protecting our environment. Doing so is an unchosen obligation upon us.
We need to give innovators space to succeed (and fail), citizens more power online and off, and keep our country competitive.