Our top ten picks of the week

The next month might be something of a bumpy ride for the party and Badenoch

Giles Dilnot

“Right now for the leader’s team the major focus is the local elections, but a combination of variables around those results could, and it is still theoretical, cause Kemi Badenoch a headache, or worse.”

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Has Trump given centre-left parties in the Anglosphere a new lease of life?

Scarlett Maguire

“It remains to be seen if the these parties can convince their voters that they are truly committed to their newfound nationalism, but right-wing leaders have good reason to be nervous.”

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Globalisation is far from dead. There’s a strong case in it’s favour and Conservatives should be making it

David Gauke

“As is already evident, the retreat from globalisation comes at a big economic cost and whatever the cause, the case for free markets and free trade is not being made by the party of Margaret Thatcher.”

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If the Conservative Party is going to demand new immigration data, it must endorse the policy implications

Henry Hill

“It wouldn’t do to collect all this information and then fail, once again, to deliver meaningful reform – but it also wouldn’t be the first time the Conservative Party has dashed itself on a reef of its own creation.”

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Why did it take the Supreme Court to deliver what 14 years of Conservative government would not?

Sarah Ingham

“Badenoch rightly highlights her work as Equalities Minister, while Sunak deserves credit for blocking gender recognition legislation in Scotland. But the ambiguities in the Equality Act should have been dealt with long ago.”

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The public square must be protected from poor legislation

Tali Fraser

“Martyn’s Law places onerous and costly responsibilities on small venues that, as one Tory MP tells me, “fundamentally aren’t the targets of terrorists”.”

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The outcome of the next election may depend on keeping the furnaces burning

Luke Tryl

“With Reform and Labour views on nationalisation of steel, which is popular with the public, the danger for the Conservatives, is that they end up squeezed out of the conversation entirely or worse exposed to scrutiny of their own record on steel.”

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Why should I be allowed to travel on the tube for free next year?

Harry Phibbs

“Why should a hard-working 60-year-old Bolton taxpayer have to pay for both his bus fare and mine?”

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Jobs, jobs, jobs. We need to talk about the damage of unemployment

Aaron Jacobs

“Whilst no one will give you credit for past success, it is notable that the record levels of employment enjoyed by the last Conservative Government was achieved while Europe seemed perennially stuck in a doom-loop of unemployment and crisis.”

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Gareth Lyon

“To a great extent, this comes across as displacement activity – the narcissism of small differences – serving a particularly important role in the context of the way that modern political parties work, especially those that have got used to being in opposition.”

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