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Isabel Goodwin: To take on Burnham, the Tories must reignite their communities first approach
4+ hour, 5+ min ago (736+ words) Isabel Goodwin is Head of Outreach for the Conservative Environment Network We are now only weeks away from a new Prime Minister. We don't know much about what a Burnham premiership will look like as he scurries away from the…...
Ian Acheson: A review of our Prisons system must not be so broad it gets blurred
6+ hour, 5+ min ago (378+ words) Professor Ian Acheson FRSA MISRM Hon DLItt is a Senior Advisor on the Counter Extremism Project and author of "Screwed: Britain's prison crisis and how to escape it'. The government has asked Amber Rudd to review the whole prison system....
Sebastian Milbank: Young people need a better deal " but can Britain's political class deliver it?
8+ hour, 5+ min ago (415+ words) Sebastian Milbank is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Justice. Young people need a better deal " but can Britain's political class deliver it? These are lives delayed. And lives delayed, are lives destroyed. 1 in 4 young people has a…...
Ridicule, Reform, and Recall - the dangerous political power of laughter
10+ hour, 36+ min ago (1493+ words) As they might say in Clacton "Come on mate, yer "avin a larf entcha?" This is a story that I never thought I"d write, but has written itself. I actually feel a bit for Nigel Farage. More in shock…...
Benjamin Elks: Local Authority debt has doubled since 2009
12+ hour, 55+ min ago (447+ words) Benjamin Elks is the Grassroots Development Manager at the Tax Payers" Alliance. New analysis from the Tax Payers" Alliance has revealed that local authority debt reached a record high of "154. 6 billion in 2025-26. Strikingly, this debt has more than doubled, rising…...
Andrew Griffith: Burnham must back British businesses
12+ hour, 45+ min ago (970+ words) Andrew Griffith is the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, MP for Arundel and South Downs and a former FTSE100 Finance Director and COO. In ten days-time, a man who spent three quarters of his working life in London,…...
Bob Seely: Why Conservatives should hope Al Carns gets the top Defence job
12+ hour, 35+ min ago (842+ words) Dr Robert Seely MBE is author of "The New Total War, Conservative Home foreign affairs columnist and a former Conservative MP." It will be better for Britain if Labour MP Al Cairns becomes the next Secretary of State for Defence....
Dan James Smith: Starmer is leaving a trans Trojan Horse for his successors
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (378+ words) Dan James Smith is a communications and branding expert, and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Internal Communication (Io IC). He is also trustee of LGB Alliance, the UK's only charity dedicated solely to the rights…...
Andy Street: The country doesn't want to be misled it wants to be levelled with - so tackle the triple lock
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (276+ words) Andy Street is Co-Chair of Prosper UK, served as the first Mayor of the West Midlands, and was formerly Managing Director of John Lewis. One of the reasons I set up Prosper UK this year, with Ruth Davidson and the…...
Andrew Murrison: No Sir, THIS is your country!
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (389+ words) Andrew Murrison is a former Minister of State at the FCO, DFID and FCDO. Robbins was right about the FCDO: It is not fit for purpose. If you doubt it, take a look at the Chagos debacle. What can possibly…...