Our top ten picks of the week

We said last year’s King’s Speech could be the moment Starmer failed – and we were right

Henry Hill

“It looks increasingly to have been his one chance to make any serious reductions to public spending, and he missed it.”

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Home ownership is a core Conservative belief but you have to build the homes to own

Emma Revell

“Either we take inspiration from a time when Britain could actually build things, or we condemn ourselves to spending the future living in smaller, ever more expensive houses, and watching the conservative dream of a home-owning democracy slip away.

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Reform UK councils have failed to introduce recruitment freezes

Harry Phibbs

“Lincolnshire County Council feels it is imperative to have a Public Health Intelligence Systems & Data Officer.”

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Labour and the Conservatives should attack Reform UK on its weakest point – Brexit

David Willetts

“They have sold the country one populist solution and it has proved to be a disaster. Indeed it is one of the main reasons for the very unhappiness they are now trying to exploit – stagnant wages and a surge in migration from outside Europe.”

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A year since the election – and could there be a sliver of light?

Tali Fraser

“Look at what a single year of Labour government, and Reform carving out their version of opposition, has offered the country. Rishi Sunak’s warnings during the election now seem a sobering reflection, though he didn’t do enough to stop it.”

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Conservatives understand that growth comes not from the state down, but from the ground up

Danielle Dunfield-Prayero

“Mel Stride built his business from scratch. Andrew Griffith played a key role in transforming Sky into a household name. They, like every entrepreneur, understand you can’t tax your way to prosperity.”

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PMQs sketch: Reeves in agony as Starmer pretends everything is fine

Andrew Gimson

“The Chancellor’s face crumpled as the Prime Minister refused to lend her his support.”

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RedBird’s connections to China should rule out their buying the Daily Telegraph

Iain Duncan Smith

“This deal risks assisting our adversaries in a well-established information war. China’s model of state capitalism is not confined to its borders. It exports influence, suppresses criticism, and seeks to rewrite the global narrative in its favour.”

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The voice I wanted to hear after the Tories had battered Labour on welfare reform, was Reform

Giles Dilnot

“It is legitimate to ask, that in order to support the most vulnerable (nobody is advocating scrapping all welfare) and to move people into work, are Reform in favour of cutting the welfare budget dramatically, and how? It’s not a loaded question it’s a genuinely fair one given their polling.”

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Rayner’s housing policy is entrenching the blockers, not bulldozing them

Blake Stephenson

“Conservatives must build a system that enables growth from the bottom up, delivering well-designed, beautiful development with access to high quality infrastructure.”

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