We simply don’t know yet what outcome could command a broad consensus. Everything short of no deal and remaining in the EU should be kept on the table.
A few days ago, the candidates department accidentally led hundreds of would-be MPs to believe, wrongly, that they had been dropped from the list.
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Sir Mick Davis and David Brownlow will be charged with a review to “further improve” CCHQ and the Conservative campaign machine.
Every Tory I know is in politics to help the less fortunate, but we must get better at telling voters that.
Once we’re no longer sending the proceeds to Brussels, the Government can invest in education and social care without asking more from the taxpayer.
The Party must step up to provide organisation, oversight, training, and resources so our activists and members can advocate for the Tory cause.
So much of the good work done under David Cameron was undone by this election campaign. Things must change or a majority will stay beyond our reach.
The general election was a perfect storm for our Party in this part of the world, but looking ahead I think there are grounds for optimism.
In 2011 the now-Shadow Chancellor praised a mob attack on Conservative headquarters. That is a much better reflection of his true nature.
The Prime Minister played the adult to Corbyn’s grumpy teenager.
If we look into the abyss, we will find it looks back at us – clad in a cropped grey beard and a Lenin hat and dressed in Marxist ideology.
Even in an age where institutional attachments run shallow, too many young people are coming to share a deep-seating dislike of our Party.
MPs need to work better at sharing intelligence about local concerns. We can win with a message of hope.
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.