As Labour’s conference opens, we can’t afford to lose our radical edge.
Conservatives should not be surprised that manufacturers try to get round onerous regulations. It is human nature to be tempted to make life easier for oneself.
By deliberately underplaying the Conservative beliefs that help drive him, he’s had greater room for manoeuvre in putting them into practice.
The next election may see increasingly distinct pitches from each of the parties towards sections of the latter.
Reports today concentrate on what Labour would do and whether it would split. But a lesson from 2013 is that Cameron must be careful how he handles his own party.
Stalin accused him of spying for Churchill and locked him up.
Plus: The Australian Liberals should have gone for Julie Bishop. Joe Pike’s Project Fear. And: Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Cyber Corbynistas?
Corbyn’s election has all at once overtly politicised and alienated an entire community that has long been an integral part of British society.
Name recognition plus appeal to floating voters leave this authentic individualist Tory in a position to beat a Labour machine politician next May.
They are smart enough to be wary of him – and, even more, of the sense of entitlement that the Party finds it hard to shake off entirely.
Finally, we must be prepared to tackle the fundamental cause of the instability wreaking havoc in the Middle East. ISIS needs to be destroyed.
He is in no sense an extremist – far from it. But his candidacy is more likely to divide London’s voters along confessional lines than Jowell’s would have been.
Boff was, well, Boff. Greenhalgh never really sparked. And Goldsmith was, frankly, all over the place.
These findings send a clear message to the Feldman Review: let’s not throw everything at the target seats and keep nothing for building up our vote elsewhere.
It is the Conservative Party which produced the first ever female MP, the first lesbian leader in Ruth Davidson and the first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.