In response to Paul Abbott, here’s a personal account from the front-line, since I’ve been reselected as the Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Tooting.
Three-quarters of the former believe that the latter should not be entitled to vote in the coming Party leadership election.
We have reformed creatively without breaking the bank. How you spend money is as important as how much you spend.
Looking at long lines of miserable British people awaiting one handout or another, he fired back: “The socialist dream is no longer Utopia, but Queue-topia!”
We need to send in Special Forces, as we did in Iraq in 2006-7.
An increase in refugees should be mirrored by a reduction in other migration. This won’t happen – and the Government is showing that it buckles under pressure.
I’m not embarrassed to say that when I saw that picture of the four year old boy who drowned and was washed up on a Turkish beach I shed a tear.
A survey asks: “Do you agree with introducing bursaries to help people who might struggle with the financial cost of being a Parliamentary candidate?”
His passionate defence of the welfare state runs counter to values that are truly embedded in their psyche: self-reliance, personal responsibility, entrepreneurialism.
Are most respondents assuming that the selection is now a done deal?
We need a bigger Conservative movement, and I believe we should build it using the only economic system that really works – private enterprise.
Authors have less access to papers than their predecessors, and their subjects tend to be less interesting – and are often still alive.
Should members and registered supporters have the same rights? What about city and county federations? Should the Party Chairman be elected? All this and much more.
Tories are at their weakest when they appear short on empathy and seem to limit that vaunted freedom to flourish to a privileged few.