The claim that the Tories are anti-Muslim because Lee Anderson was a Tory does not stack up when he was kicked out precisely because his views were incompatible with the party’s principles.
No decent person can support piracy or missile attacks on peaceful merchant vessels. Someone has to defend the global order. Not for the first time, that someone is the Anglo-American alliance.
Hamas’ supporters or the authorities? Sunak needs to show that offenders will be prosecuted – and, if the situation deteriorates, to push for march bans, shuffle his Cabinet and show an all-party front with Starmer.
It is now impossible to imagine a prosperous, normal nation, integrated into the global economy and full of businesses keen on strong relations with Israel.
Like it or not, in many areas, we need a radical Labour government – or at least one willing to take the tough decisions the Conservatives have ducked.
Individually, it may make sense for a constituency to pick a known local candidate. But collectively, the party needs some constituencies to think outside the box, so as to make itself collectively more electable.
The joint One Nation Caucus and Tory Reform Group conference last weekend, following the recent National Conservative Conference, are pointers to the shape of a possible future.
The sad truth is that if the Confederation of British Industry did not exist, we would have to invent it.
With Britain’s credibility in Kyiv unparalleled, we are best-placed to raise the question of how this war might end, with an eye to Russia’s stability and re-integration into the international system.
Careless talk costs credibility – a point that politicians who like musing aloud about undesirable outcomes should bear in mind.
Are we in recession? Of course not. The ONS has in fact just uprated its growth forecast, and the IMF now admits that Kwarteng’s reforms will boost growth.
A spirited defence of cutting taxes is a welcome change from a Conservative Prime Minister.
Since Barack Obama said that Britain would be “back of the queue” for a trade deal after Brexit, we have had two more Presidents and three more Prime Ministers. Yet the deal has not become any more likely
This is a war between two visions of human life. And ours is the better.
We shouldn’t assume that Tory common sense protects British conservatism. The fact is that rightwing PC — though in a different form to the US version — is making in-roads in this country too.