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Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

Rachel Wolf is a partner in Public First. She had co-charge of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. She was an education and innovation adviser at Number 10 during David Cameron’s premiership and was ...
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Daniel Hannan: No, the pound isn't crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It's because the markets are terrified of Starmer. | Conservative Home

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is a Conservative peer, writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. You really think this is ...
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Tory leadership elections. A brief history.Tory leadership elections. A brief history.Tory leadership elections. A brief history.

A confidence ballot in Boris Johnson may or may not be triggered this week. While we wait to find out, here is a potted history of Conservative leadership elections The only point I would stress is ...
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Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

Iain Dale is an LBC presenter, a commentator with CNN and the author/editor of over 30 books. Each year for the last 11 years, I have convened panels to compile lists of the Top 50 Liberal Democrats, ...
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Rebecca Lowe: The Right cannot afford to duck the debate about trans, sex and gender

My lawyer friend Victoria Hewson and I have launched a small, non-funded campaign called ‘Radical’, aimed at fighting for truth and freedom in this arena.
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John Downer: Scrapping HS2 wouldn’t help the North, it would cut a vital lifeline to the regional economies

John Downer is a Director of High Speed Rail Industry Leaders (HSRIL), a group of companies and organisations which is committed to supporting the successful delivery of a world-class high speed rail ...
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“As soon as the law’s in place… we’ll stop [the boats] in two weeks”

“As soon as the law’s in place… we’ll stop [the boats] in two weeks” #BBCLauraK questions Reform UK leader Nigel Farage over when his pledge to stop migrant boats in the English Channel would actually ...
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Rachel Wolf: My verdict on Levelling Up? Very good in parts. But even Gove cannot paper over the cracks.Rachel Wolf: My verdict on Levelling Up? Very good in parts. But even ...

Only Michael Gove could take a departmental White Paper and turn it into a government’s manifesto. The paper demonstrates both his abilities and the limits of his persuasive power across government.
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Ali Demirbag: A post-Brexit visa regime must encourage the brightest and the best to travel to the UK on business

Dr Ali Demirbag is the Chairman of the Association of Turkish Speaking Health Professionals in the UK. In its attempts to define a new vision for the British economy, the signals coming from Boris ...
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How much of a threat to Labour is Corbyn’s new party?

Owen Matthews: If the Tory Party is to stay relevant, people like Rory Stewart should never be allowed to stand for it Joe Porter: Allotments tie people to their neighbourhood, to the land beneath ...
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Richard Holden: The horrifying tale of how I was baselessly charged with sexual assault – and what it says about the police and CPS

Richard Holden is a former Special Adviser and former Deputy Head of Press for the Conservative Party. It’s a Friday afternoon in May at Southwark Crown Court, and a jury has just taken a matter of ...
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Daniel Hannan: Farewell to Edward du Cann, the courtly Eurosceptic who helped propel Thatcher to power

Daniel Hannan is an MEP for South-East England, and a journalist, author and broadcaster. His most recent book is What Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit. Throughout his years as Conservative ...