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What’s behind Badenoch’s youth revival?
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (808+ words) It was at 25-years-old that Kemi Badenoch joined the Conservative Party " for the partying. "Socialising, drinks, hanging out with other young people," she recalls, and it was how she eventually met her husband, Hamish, at the Dulwich and West Norwood…...
Peter Franklin: Farage is right — we need to be ready for the possibility of a 2027 general election
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (346+ words) Peter Franklin is an Associate Editor of UnHerd. When Nigel Farage'launched'his "shadow cabinet" last week he made a remarkable prediction: "a general election is coming next year". It's not the first time he's made that claim. Back in September he…...
Bradley Fage: Teachers are voting overwhelmingly on the left, but that could, and should, change
2+ hour, 58+ min ago (342+ words) Bradley Fage is a Senior Researcher at City Hall Conservatives and a current School Governor. New polling released last month reveals a striking and largely overlooked reality " the Conservative Party is now only the fifth most popular party among teachers....
Festus Akinbusoye: Why London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are failing the working class
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (552+ words) Festus Akinbusoye was the Conservative Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2021 to 2024. The architectural serenity of Westminster offers a rare vantage point from which to observe the escalating friction defining modern London. While this borough where I live has maintained…...
Conor Boyle: Anti-wealth policies fuel a cycle of doom
18+ hour, 18+ min ago (546+ words) Conor Boyle is a young conservative and unionist from Northern Ireland, an Oxford graduate, and now works in the financial services sector. How many items in Britain's current economic policy, tax system, regulatory framework, and so-on, exist almost entirely for…...
Max Thompson: Britain is on course for a blasphemy law by the back door, and a recent case might open it
20+ hour, 18+ min ago (470+ words) Max Thompson is Campaigns Officer, for the The Free Speech Union. If the Crown Prosecution Service gets their way, we could very well be living in a country with an Islamic blasphemy law. Last February, Hamit Coskun burned a Quran…...
Calum Davies: Will the real Plaid Cymru please stand up - and not the glossed media makeover they get in Wales
22+ hour, 18+ min ago (717+ words) Calum Davies is a Conservative councillor in Cardiff and a candidate for the Senedd in May. In my last column, I wrote about how Welsh Labour had sown the seeds of their own demise by feeding the separatist beast, part-explaining…...
Newslinks for Monday 23rd February 2026
1+ day, 18+ min ago (394+ words) No 10 fast-tracked security vetting for Mandelson despite known links to Epstein | Britain faces billion-pound bill if Chagos deal collapses | Streeting must be sacked to reset Government, allies tell Starmer The post Newslinks for Monday 23rd February 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home....
All Prime Ministers should be precarious, for they serve only at our pleasure
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1387+ words) Such instability is bad for the country and for democracy." So said William Hague in a column last Monday'in which with his usual lucidity he supported the conventional wisdom that it is bad to have had six Prime Ministers in…...
Alexander Bowen: The minimum wage would make more sense if it wasn't the same across the country
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (422+ words) Alexander Bowen is a trainee economist based in Belgium, specialising in public policy assessment, and a policy fellow at a British think tank. "A national minimum wage is killing the North. It might sound slightly hyperbolic but it's true enough....