Our top ten picks of the week

Shadow Cabinet League Table: Jenrick’s lead continues – as Holden enters in last place

Henry Hill and Tali Fraser

“Jenrick’s dominance appears to be unassailable. He places comfortably on top, yet again with +70.4. Holden, promoted to shadow transport secretary, has entered the rankings in dead last at -14.9.”

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A better solution to Lords reform would leave the Hereditaries in place, but without the right to vote

Daniel Hannan

“I can’t help feeling that would be a more equitable solution, one that would give Labour its majority while retaining both the civility of the House and the link back to the council of bishops and barons called into being by Magna Carta.”

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A strangely captivating portrait of an unexpected pioneer

Andrew Gimson

“The Duchess of Atholl, first woman MP for a Scottish seat, fell out with her constituents about an issue as emotive as Gaza, the Spanish Civil War.”

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My new book explains how we Conservatives transformed English education

Nick Gibb

“Reading it, you might think that the job is done. It most certainly is not. Reforming our schools needs to continue. I wish we had been able to do so. But the blueprint for reform is there for all to see.”

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Why I defected to Reform UK

Rupert Matthews

“The Conservative Party has been “weighed in the balance and found wanting”. And now, like Belshazzar of old, their time is passing. Britain needs a new party to drive the radical change this country needs.”

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Tackling immigration isn’t about race, and the left need to stop branding people concerned about it as racists

Giles Dilnot

“While I was away, the UK seemed to tie itself in knots over men of fighting age crossing the sea to settle in Britain. I don’t think this French deal is going to fix things, more than window dressing for a comms strategy that has strayed into, frankly, outright lying.”

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Holly Whitbread

“We will pursue every democratic and diplomatic channel, including petitions and motions, and letters from the Leader of the Council, the local MP, and the Police and Crime Commissioner to the Home Secretary. Although they have been ignored, we will not and cannot stop.”

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Solidarity is a word captured by the left, but a concept Conservatives should take back

Ben Spencer

“When people choose to use their hard-earned money to avoid drawing down on public services and seek alternative provision, it should be supported and encouraged as an act of solidarity with our country, not denigrated or disparaged as elitist.”

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The real scandal in the Chagos spending story is how government generally cooks its numbers

Henry Hill

“If ministers can either adjust their figures for inflation or not, as suits their preference, it deliberately makes impossible proper public understanding of the nation’s finances.”

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Labour’s taxes are making us all poorer

Aarti Joshi

“We are likely to be in for further taxes on capital, high earners, and on businesses. This will impoverish us further, and chase away the very people we need to create and grow the businesses that employ the people that pay the taxes that fund public services.”

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