After Penny Mordaunt dropped out two minutes before the 2 PM deadline, Rishi Sunak was formally chosen as the next leader of the Conservative Party.
The Prime Minister’s rhetoric about being a man who makes the tough choices has not yet been borne out in his policymaking.
As his options narrow, Sunak has little choice but to get back to first principles, which would be the right course anyway.
My hunch is the next generation of aspiring leaders will have a firmer grip on the meaning of conservatism than the current crop. Or, at least, I hope so — otherwise there might not be a party to lead.
Though for all his efforts to place his tanks on Tory lawns, the former editor of Socialist Alternatives still struggled to speak like a Conservative in several crucial areas.
During the half century since the Yom Kippur war took place, conflict abroad has increasingly meant consequences here.
“The more homes we build and the bigger the homes we build the easier it is for people to raise families.” – Gove.
The Levelling Up Secretary added that the Home Secretary had made “thoughtful points” that “we do need to ensure we have a core of values that everyone who lives here accepts.”
The seventh part of our series on reducing demand for government, in which we set out a programme for change – focused on families, civil society and government.
Better waste-water treatment and agricultural practices are more practical and cost-effective ways to proceed.
A friend of Michael Gove and a former Liberal Democrats, he is bidding for the Daily Telegraph and is an investor in GB News, which he hopes to see at the centre of such an election, if it happens.
The author has the abilities of a sketchwriter, but not of Edmund Burke.
Ending toxic leasehold for security, dignity, autonomy and control in the home captures the zeitgeist of our time and is exactly what voters will be thankful for at the next election.