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Our survey. Over half of Party members give a thumbs-up to fracking – so dissenting from Johnson’s manifesto.
They don't believe that the Government's moratorium on it is justified by the evidence about safety. → Read More
The limits of support for One Nation. Our Survey.
Only one in three Party members, according to our poll, are unambiguously lined up behind the idea. → Read More
The end of the Conservative Party as we have known it
Today, its future looks less economically and socially liberal; its flavour less southern and more northern; its replacement MPs more committed to Brexit. Will → Read More
Almost good enough isn’t good enough
Strangely but truly, the best way of helping the Prime Minister is to send her back to Brussels to win concessions on the backstop. → Read More
From an analysis of the Withdrawal Agreement’s text: How the Irish protocol would separate Great Britain from Northern Ireland.
It can't have been Parliament's intention to allow Northern Ireland to form part of a separate customs territory to Great Britain for any purpose. → Read More
Brexit. It’s time for an end to illusions. May must choose between the backstop and her country.
The key question now for Conservative MPs is whether they can support the UK being trapped in a customs union - and the dismemberment of the Union itself. → Read More
The gathering wait for a Johnson burka inquiry decision
A consequence of the new Code of Conduct may be that he is referred to a panel - whether Number Ten wants it or not. → Read More
“Difficult, and often embarrassing, conversations”
May's muddled call for an apology from Johnson suggests that her approach to integration, cohesion and extremism is all at sea. → Read More
Our Survey. Next Tory Leader. Javid tops the poll for the first time.
Gove is second, "Other" third. It is an astonishing turnaround for a man who three months ago was languishing on a mere two per cent. → Read More
That pitiable conference, this directionless party – and the tale of Johnson’s lion and May’s frog
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing. → Read More
EU migration. Rudd must back May up fully in the drive to reduce it.
During her period as Home Secretary, May faced institutional resistance from the Treasury and Business. She cannot afford to lose the support of her former → Read More
The crucial difference between a non-win this month and the win in 2015 was the failure of the Tory machine
May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats → Read More
42 per cent and no majority 2) The Party must make the case for conservatism to a new generation of voters. It hasn’t for too long.
As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn't work cuts little ice → Read More
Why a former Coalition Minister could draw more Tory than Labour voters as Liberal Democrat leader
During the 1980s, the electoral function of the SDP/Alliance was to help the Conservatives win. This does not necessarily hold true 30 or so years on. → Read More
Recently, May said “Enough is enough”. Yesterday, terrorist flags were brandished in London. She lacks credibility.
The Prime Minister cannot expect to be taken seriously if she lets supporters of Hezbollah openly boss London's streets. → Read More
Van attack outside a mosque. One dead, several injured. A parliamentary inquiry into anti-Muslim hatred is long overdue.
The Home Affairs Select Committee should hold the inquiry which the editor of this site called for eight long years ago. → Read More
The future may or may not be bright. But either way, the future’s Brexit.
For all the chatter about the Customs Union, leaving the EU in full is still on course. But May's bungled election has raised the chances of a disorderly → Read More
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower calamity – and regardless of it – asserting property rights is not enough
A Conservative MP has led the way in proposing how London could be rebalanced away from the super-rich and back towards the mass of its citizens. → Read More
Why the Prime Minister now has no alternative but to broaden her Cabinet. Today, she should bring back Gove, Morgan and Grieve.
She is now dependent on her critics if the new goverment is to work. This is a time for humility, reconciliation - and all hands on deck. → Read More
Our snap survey. Two in three Conservative Party members say that May should announce her resignation
Obviously, members and our readers are angry in the election's aftermath. None the less, it is the most damning finding that in one of our polls that I can → Read More