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Alex Morton: Changing direction on net zero has given us a win - now it's more change or bust
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (430+ words) Alex Morton is Head of Political Economy at Onward. While the result in Makerfield was the most important by-election result in decades and has resulted in a change of Prime Minister, the result in Aberdeen South was also key in…...
An outpouring of "sticks and stones" outrage can"t hide Badenoch"s palpable hits
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (720+ words) It's ironic to think, at the end of Keir Starmer's premiership, that his problems began almost at the start of it. I mean, all of these were the fuel he kept throwing on his own political pyre, but the really…...
Bob Seely: Understanding Britain's strategic heritage can drive our renaissance
5+ hour, 41+ min ago (607+ words) Dr Robert Seely MBE is author of "The New Total War, Conservative Home foreign affairs columnist and a former Conservative MP." This is the third part of a series asking: Whats wrong with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)…...
Andy Preston: At the moment not enough people trust Reform for them to assume the future's theirs
5+ hour, 51+ min ago (729+ words) Andy Preston was Mayor of Middlesbrough between 2019 and 2023, as an independent. He is a political commentator Makerfield was Reform's election to lose. It was a Leave-voting seat. Labour is deeply unpopular nationally. Reform had momentum from the local elections and…...
Tom Mytton: Victory in Wandsworth. A Tooting perspective.
6+ hour ago (814+ words) Cllr Tom Mytton is a Wandsworth councillor and has been Chairman of Tooting Conservative Association since 2022. The defeat was significant not simply because Labour won, but because it exposed deep structural problems within our local organisation. For many of us…...
Matthew Eason: That was your prime ministerial life, Sir Keir
21+ hour, 10+ min ago (826+ words) Matthew Eason is an Account Director at Media Intelligence Partners When someone's time in power comes to an end, it is only natural that they begin to think of their legacy. What they will be remembered for, if indeed anyone…...
Matthew Jeffery: The Long Read: Defining 'Kemistry' - what might Badenochism be?
23+ hour, 11+ min ago (1507+ words) Matthew Jeffery is one of Britain's most experienced global talent and recruitment leaders, with more than 25 years advising boards and C-suite executives on workforce strategy, skills, and productivity. Kemi Badenoch's political philosophy "Badenochism', or as she playfully calls it "Kemistry…...
Stephen Curran: I know, we are all hot and bothered, but schools need to take it in their stride
1+ day, 27+ min ago (406+ words) Dr Stephen Curran is an education expert who advised on the 2014 syllabus. We are in the middle of a heatwave. It is very hot. But not hot enough to make my blood boil. What does make my blood boil, however,…...
Liz Truss: 'There's no political party at present in Britain that represents exactly what I think"
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (646+ words) It is this refusal to fade away into the distant memory of the British electorate which I find rather interesting, and what spurred me to interview her in the first place. Serving as the Chairman of CPAC Great Britain, I…...
Katie Lam: What did Starmer actually achieve?
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (558+ words) Katie Lam is a shadow Home Office minister and MP for Weald of Kent. In his farewell speech to the nation, Keir Starmer talked of "what [he'd] achieved in just two years. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was…...