Hundreds of mostly new MPs with the mentality of local councillors are killing PMQs by making it indistinguishable from a local council meeting. The post The Commons is being wrecked by MPs who behave as supplicants for merely local favours appeared first on Conservative Home .
From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our side From Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so surprised by the right’s election defeats? Flávio Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Reform UK, the Tories and a vast array of Republican candidates have all been rejected in national or local contests this year, even in usually reliably conservative Mississippi. Apparently impregnable incumben...
We have, it seems, reached a potentially decisive moment in the battle between the Conservatives and Reform to become the dominant party of the right in Britain. Since the middle of last month, eight polling companies have conducted at least one poll in which they have asked people which party they would vote if a general election were held now. On average, the most recent readings from these companies put the Conservatives on 22%, a point ahead of Reform on 21%. Four of the companies put the...
A novel counter approach from Tory-run Westminster City, which passed a motion last night declaring “zionism is not racism.” To much gnashing of teeth from the left… The joint Tory-Labour motion obviously responds to the Green one. The council now: “1. affirm that Zionism is not racism and reject the Green Party’s position 2. reaffirm…
A ban on living on the Chagos Islands is lawful, a court has ruled, months after a group of people landed on the outer islets of the archipelago. In March, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court had ruled that part of a 2004 law which removed the rights of the Chagossian people to enter and remain on the outer islands was unlawful. The ruling came just weeks after a group of nine people - including four Chagossians and former Tory MP Adam Holloway - landed on the Ile Du Coin,...
Tory London mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye has taken aim at Met Police chief Mark Rowley for “championing regional mega-forces” after his rival for the Conservative candidacy, James Cleverly, backed Rowley on The Guido Fawkes Show last night. Akinbusoye is less sympathetic to Rowley’s efforts… He tells Guido: “The Met Commissioner should be concentrating on tackling crime…
Shadow defence minister David Reed attacked the slow pace of rearming the UK's military and intelligence apparatus.
Prospective Tory London Mayoral candidate James Cleverly said on The Guido Fawkes Show last night that he would not abolish the Met Police force if he becomes Mayor, and he has confidence in Mark Rowley as its Chief. Laying the blame for rising crime at the door of Sadiq Khan… “The Metropolitan Police Force is…
Margaret Thatcher famously said that “the Scots invented Thatcherism long before I was thought of.” The Conservative Party treats Thatcher like a comfort blanket, turning back to her battles and aesthetics in times of crisis. But Thatcher didn’t win by imitating anyone. The post Jack Peters: The Conservatives weren’t too liberal: we were too weak appeared first on Conservative Home .
The Tory leader used Prime Minister's Questions to hit out at the Foreign Secretary, who has so far remained silent over his decision to woo the comic to win Labour votes from his fans.
A British man who was charged with spying for China has broken his silence after the case was thrown out of court. Chris Cash, a former parliamentary researcher, denied accusations of providing information prejudicial to the interests of the state in breach of the Official Secrets Act. Speaking to the BBC, he has claimed to be a "convenient fall guy" for UK police, who wanted to put espionage threats by foreign states "on the map". He had been charged alongside Christopher Berry, 33, with the...
Exclusive: Equalities minister says Tories are ‘chasing Reform into the gutter’ as they drop support for planned law to ban ‘conversion therapy’ Kemi Badenoch has “no interest in supporting LGBT+ people” or promoting tolerance more widely, a government minister has said, after the Conservatives dropped support for a planned law to ban so-called “conversion therapy”. The comments by Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister, come after the Tories removed their previous backing for a law targ...
Even her own MPs were stony-faced as the Tory leader ran though her set list of gags from the budget to Russell Brand UK politics live – latest updates Well, there was one person at least who thought Kemi Badenoch had absolutely nailed it at this week’s prime minister’s questions. And that person was Kemi Badenoch. She could not have been more pleased with herself if she had tried. No one laughed louder and longer at her own jokes than she did. No one admired her laser focus as much as she di...
The huge solar farm will cover 1,280 hectares and power 180,000 homes
Sara Gezdari said a high-profile jewellery store robbery in Richmond earlier this year persuaded her to run for mayor
We are conservatives. We are back. And we have a plan. A plan to fix our economy, to defend our islands, to get people into work and to turn this country around. Come join us. The post David Thompson: The new Conservatives are coming straight out of the starting blocks appeared first on Conservative Home .
He mistook success for a solitary achievement. He believed he conquered his circumstances but conveniently ignored the formative relationships that sustained him. Government should not try to make such advantages irrelevant, but bring them within reach of more people. The post Rafe Fletcher: Why the Conservatives should challenge meritocracy appeared first on Conservative Home .
People could have to wait until well into their 70s to receive the state pension if a future Conservative government keeps the triple lock unchanged, Treasury minister Torsten Bell has claimed. Mr Bell argued that maintaining the policy without reform would require faster increases in the state pension age to manage its cost. Keeping the triple lock in its current form would cost £50billion a year by 2050, according to government estimates. The state pension age is under review and is already...
Kemi Badenoch attacked reforms but is not being clear about how party would meet costs, Torsten Bell claims Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives would have to raise the state pension age above 70 to meet the cost of keeping the triple lock, Treasury minister Torsten Bell has claimed. Labour has announced reforms to the triple-lock promise to come into force in the next parliament – with the initial proceeds earmarked for Andy Burnham’s national care service. Continue reading...
The Tories didn’t ‘want a war’. They weren’t ‘itching to have’ a war. They did however know, from experience, that if one was coming with the Iranian regime, you’d better win it. The post Trump’s war with Iran has been terrible for us all but wanting the Ayatollahs gone is a noble cause appeared first on Conservative Home .
The current Labour Government is doing a good job of losing any credibility it may have had after the last general election when it comes to welfare control, but the Tories can’t yet assume that this latest announcement means the public trust them much more. The post Emmanuel Igwe: Kemi must still build trust on welfare appeared first on Conservative Home .
The Tory leader issued the alert as she set out plans to slash the welfare bill by £36billion a year.
Conservative shadow minister Helen Whately says the system risks putting children on a "conveyor belt" towards a "lifetime on benefits".
The question is whether Britain chooses to lead that transformation, and whether the Conservatives are prepared to make the case for an AI-skilled generation. The post Noah Avis: The Conservative case for an AI-skilled generation appeared first on Conservative Home .
HMRC’s tax snoopers are set to photograph Britons’ homes without their permission in order to value them for Labour’s Mansion Tax. When you see a flash through the curtains in the night… The Tories are campaigning against the tax, and shadow minister David Simmonds has obtained some details of the guidance issued by HMRC to…
I know Badenoch’s office has attempted to discourage Tories from getting involved with this body, but clearly with incomplete success. Tougher action now needs to be taken against Tories who work against the party, its leadership and its interests in this way The post Andrew Gilligan: Not every APPG has Conservative interests at heart – whilst having ‘Conservatives’ on them appeared first on Conservative Home .
Success for our city requires strong leadership, sound financial management and a willingness to challenge complacency. The post John Blundell: Coventry Conservatives are back in the fight appeared first on Conservative Home .
Kieran Kyle sent emails to the Tory party leader in which he made racist references, a court hears.
Former Prime Minister David Cameron is leading the charge for a new type of dementia drug to be rolled out on the NHS. Backed by almost 50 specialists and ex-health ministers, the Tory peer has called for the block on providing the life-changing treatment to those suffering from Britain's biggest killer. The UK was the first nation in Europe to greenlight the breakthrough drug, designed to slow cognitive decline, but the medication is only available through private healthcare. Now, Lord Camer...
So-called "sickfluencers", who coach people on how to claim benefits, have been blamed for the surge in benefits claims. Helen Whately, the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said previous campaigns to improve mental health care had fuelled a rise in benefits claims for conditions such as anxiety and ADHD . The rise of sickfluencers has previously been condemned by Robert Jenrick, who warned that people were being taught how to "game the system". Mrs Whately, who has previously campaigned on...
The Covid inquiry has found that a failure across care homes allowed the virus to "spread like wildfire". In the sixth, 287-page report into the pandemic, experts revealed care homes were being treated as an "something of an afterthought". More than 43,000 care home residents died from the Covid-19 virus between March 2020 and July 2022. And, due to care homes being off-limits to visitors during this period, bereaved families are still searching for answers on how their loved ones. TRENDING S...
As Reform slip back in the polls, Labour and the Conservatives rediscover a familiar political divide, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
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