Priti Patel’s ultimate victory won’t be merely if Australia-style Rwanda flights ever take off. It will be if Labour sends them.
Four, deep-rooted currents in are carving out space for movements which seek to prioritise the interests, the culture, the values, and the ways of life of the majority group against what they see as self-interested, corrupt, narcissistic, and incompetent elites.
The defeat of these parties is above all a task for the moderate Right.
Now, through Orbán and Trump, the Kremlin is cashing in its chips. Unable to defeat Western-supported Ukraine on the battlefield, it’s playing Western politics to cut off its supply of money and weapons.
This European “nationalism” could well produce a considerably more populist EU. Whether that would be good for the UK is another matter.
The key problem is stagnation. Margaret Thatcher’s reforms promoted mobility and opportunity. Now we are an economy which doesn’t change enough.
His victory in the Dutch elections was only possible because the mainstream parties had failed to control the country’s borders.
In the Netherlands, Germany, and elsewhere, voters are showing that their rhetorical commitment to a ‘green transition’ is not matched by their willigness to pay.
A Brexit-enabled tweak to the Solvency II regulatory requirements would allow mortgage backed securities to be less capital intensive, making them more attractive to pension funds.
Imagine that every day a British Minister dealt with their counterparts in Germany or France, they observed that their own living standards were 25 per cent lower (the gap for Britain’s poorest compared with those two countries).
In future, the economy may run into inflation bottlenecks earlier in economic recoveries than before, thus constraining growth.
The pandemic has destroyed the idea that macroeconomic problems can be solved by throwing more stimulus at things.
The fourth part of a ConHome series this week on Levelling Up as the Government’s White Paper nears publication.
These are two major dangers to indefinite restrictions. One relates to immunity, and the other is around how long people can cope with them.
Yet unlike insurgent parties in other countries, the Conservatives have time and again made themselves the party of a status quo that serves only the interests of older voters.