Our top ten picks of the week

The Conservatives are shocked – shocked! – to find that someone acted on the Lammy Review

Henry Hill

“Two Conservative prime ministers – David Cameron and Theresa May – ordered an investigation into racial bias in the criminal justice system and then chose David Lammy to lead it.”

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The local elections will show that Labour has the most to fear from Reform UK

Harry Phibbs

“If the Conservatives make losses to Reform UK they can point out the comparison is from a high base. If Labour make losses they will be doing even worse than from a very bad set of results in 2021.”

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Truss was right about Britain’s fiscal straightjacket – but not how to escape it

Andrew Gilligan

“As she argued, any future Tory government must do something about the hardcore bondage we have strapped ourselves into with fiscal rules and the Office of Budget Responsibility.”

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Saving the Party from Financial Ruin, Part One. CCHQ is living on the edge

Joe Egerton

“The filed accounts for The Conservative Central Office, signed off in May 2024, showed net assets of £18m at 31 December 2023. This is misleading.”

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Time to toughen up on immigration and end the Human Rights Act farce

Chris Philp MP

“I am angry that recent Immigration Tribunal decisions have allowed dangerous foreign criminals and others to stay in the UK on obviously spurious human rights grounds.”

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In Labour’s uncomfortable search for benefit cuts there are opportunities for the Tories

John Oxley

“Spending less money should be at the heart of this, but it must go further. We need a better idea of how our benefits system should operate, where the incentives lie and how it interacts with the world of work.“

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When it comes to policy renewal the Conservatives have space to think, but not to disconnect from the public

Dr Patrick English

“The announcement that the Conservatives in power would abandon the UK’s legally binding pledge to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is an interesting opening gambit…” 

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Two cheers for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill? Part Two – The Bad

Dr Samuel Hughes

“Does the Government realise how the public will respond when ordinary people are financially ruined while their homes are demolished?”

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The Government can raise defence spending but we need to know how it’ll be spent

James Cartlidge MP

“Our soldiers cannot fight with promises. They need spending commitments rapidly converted into real-world procurement, delivering capability into the hands of our war fighters at the pace and scale required by the threats we face.”

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The collapse in Conservative support among young voters will kill us sooner than we think

Peter Franklin

“The grimmest fact of them all is that if you consider all young people in the 18-24 age range, i.e. both voters and non-voters, something like two per cent voted Conservative last year. And among all 25-34-year-olds, it’s barely better at around four per cent.“

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