DEBATE: Have the Conservatives re-established themselves as the party of law and order? Have the Conservatives re-established themselves as the party of law and order? Jack Powell, editor of 1828, says YES. The home secretary stands in front of the police federation, berating them about everything from decades-long scandals to not working with her constructively enough Five years later, one of her successors pledges to give her full [...]
The Tories should be the natural party of immigration For many years, the Tory party has had an obsession with immigration – and, more to the point, cutting it. Thanks to David Cameron’s misguided pledge to bring net migration down to the “tens of thousands”, the party has thrown both economic evidence and its core philosophy out the window in pursuit of that unreachable [...]
Let this be the week that Liz Truss moves into Number 11 Downing Street We are now at the end of the Tory leadership election. Today, we will have the results, and tomorrow, either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will be sworn in as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But throughout it all, another important contest has largely gone ignored: the race for Number 11. Within the Westminster [...]
