The Conservatives are gearing for the next general election amid concern about a rise in support for Reform UK, a news report has claimed. The Telegraph has claimed Conservative HQ is “significantly” increasing efforts to attract new donations and is set to embark on hiring campaign managers. A survey by People Polling, published on Friday, […]
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Boris Johnson has asked Conservative colleagues to fight “for a low tax global Britain” and contest the next election on a pledge to cut taxes, a news report claimed. Mr Johnson also requested Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to press ahead with a new law to override the Northern Ireland Protocol and resolve the Brexit impasse […]
On Monday night she told Sky News: “I needed to come out of this meeting with something serious to show nurses why they should not strike this week. Regrettably, they are not getting an extra penny.” She also said that Mr Barclay “showed total belligerence this afternoon, he closed his books and walked away”. “I […]
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Good morning. Labour has won the Stretford and Urmston by-election, while the stand-off between the British government and striking nurses continues. Small wonder that Rishi Sunak and other senior ministers […]
“I just don’t know what our offer is to the under-45s,” sighs a former Conservative minister. Another channels the former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker: “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we’ve done it.” The conflicting demands of reconnecting with a cohort they are losing and […]
The government will not be able to achieve its nature targets by 2030, even though they are “embarrassingly poor”, the shadow environment minister and leading wildlife groups have said. Next week at the Cop15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Labour will unveil a detailed “science-led, joined-up plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency”. The plan […]
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Good morning. Traditionally, immigration is an area of Conservative strength, electorally speaking. But in the past decade, it has become much trickier territory for them. Can Rishi Sunak’s pledge to […]
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Good morning. The UK government’s £63mn-a-year deal with France to prevent attempts to cross the Channel in small boats is “throwing good money after bad”, said Tim Loughton, a senior […]
The Conservatives have been in power since May 2010. Their record has been dreadful. This is partly because of adverse circumstances. But it is also because the party is in thrall to an outmoded ideology. On balance, each leader has also been worse than his or her predecessor. Maybe Rishi Sunak will be the “grown […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will almost certainly lead the Conservative Party into the next general election in 2024. The party remains well behind Labour in the polls and recent surveys have also shown that Sir Keir Starmer’s party are gaining ground in traditional Tory seats. While Mr Sunak hopes he can repair the damage left […]