Our top ten picks of the week

All about Boris

Henry Hill

“HL Mencken once observed that: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.””

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A good lesson for the Tories in opposition – that our freedom agenda really works

David Willetts

“One reason it is such a good slogan is that it is not an ideological appeal – it is a practical one.”

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The Conservatives need a bold tax policy that promotes growth and is not hampered by the wrong lessons

Stephen Herring

“Any talk of bold tax cuts raises the Truss-Kwarteng Mini-Budget a plan which should have spurred growth but was, in practice, an exercise in how not to implement it. The lesson should not be that tax cuts are unworkable, only that they must be accompanied by clear, credible plans to balance the books.”

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Tory MPs are trying to introduce national service, again

Tali Fraser

“After a poorly received policy announcement by the party during the 2024 general election, some Tory MPs today are in the mood for an extra dose of patriotism, and have been looking at ways to once more resurrect national service.”

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Forget for a moment the many hurdles around a deal with Reform and focus on the logic and the maths

Daniel Hannan

“If the three biggest parties were all to score 25 per cent, Labour would form the next government despite getting half the combined vote of the two Rightist parties. Such is the logic of first-past-the-post. So we come back to the question of a deal.”

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I lost in Doncaster. But I’m still confident Badenoch can lead us to victory with true blue Conservatism

Nick Fletcher

“The country is in a mess. Socialism isn’t the answer. Neither is populism. We have four years to get the detail right and to take back leadership of this country.”

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The Conservative party’s current brief and the political mysteries of ‘time’

Giles Dilnot

“Tolstoy said that “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” The danger of political battles is parties can run out of the latter as quick as the electorate can run out of the former.”

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The direction the Conservatives will be tempted towards to seek salvation is not the way they need to go

David Gauke

“The party needs to restore its reputation for economic credibility, admit the damage done by Brexit – and support measures to move closer to the EU.  It should be willing to be very critical of Donald Trump.  And it needs to wholeheartedly make the case against Reform and Farage.”

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Tories must reject the Woke Right’s race-baiting focus on the white working class

Albie Amankona

“The political chattering classes are stuck in an episode of Little Britain, thinking in stereotypes. These caricatures don’t reflect the families I know.”

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In Warwickshire, we forgot what it means to be Conservative

Clare Golby

“The Council became officer-led. Decision-making was replaced by a leadership obsessed with process and paralysed by caution. Conservatives increasingly acted like administrators, not elected representatives.”

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