The major problem with the Assisted Dying Bill is not just assisting suicide – it’s the Bill itself
Danny Kruger
“Some people oppose the principle of this Bill. However even if you support assisted suicide this Bill is the wrong one. It is too wide in its eligibility; the process of pushing it through Parliament has been chaotic, bordering on anti-democratic and it will have a severely detrimental effect on the NHS.”
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Our Survey: Kemi Badenoch falls to nil point rating in latest Shadow Cabinet League Table
Henry Hill and Tali Fraser
“As one shadow cabinet member told ConservativeHome, and it is something echoed by Tory backbenchers too: “There is a load of dead weight.” Clearly our Members’ Panel are starting to agree.”
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To be ready for next year’s elections we are going to review this year’s and build back stronger
Kemi Badenoch
“If we are to make this year the point from when we rise again, and the latest case study in the Conservative Party bouncing back from a historic low, then we need to forge a new determination in this time of adversity. Conservatism matters for our country.”
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Whatever your immigration views, surely we deserve to know the true cost?
Tali Fraser
“There is a serious, ongoing issue when it comes to understanding immigration in this country: the British state does not even try to calculate the net fiscal effects of different profiles of migrant.”
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We risk a two-tier blasphemy law, fit for Starmer’s two-tier Britain
Robert Jenrick
“We do not – and should not – have blasphemy laws in the UK. Burning a religious text as an act of protest should never be a criminal offence. Offensive? Yes. Criminal? Absolutely not.”
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Local government is trying to do too much
David Taylor
“Our town halls have become bloated and inefficient, whilst as the same time, stretched too thin.”
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The self-defenestration of Sir Keir Starmer
Henry Hill
“Starmer looks to be once again teeing himself up for a command performance in the traditional ritual suicide of a British political consensus: opening the Overton Window real wide and then hurling oneself out of it.”
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Tough community sentences are not about being ‘soft’ on criminals
Iain Duncan Smith
“This is not a license to release every, indeed any, murderer, rapist, and terrorist onto our streets. But where there is no threat to public, and prison will have little reformative effect, it gives the judiciary another weapon in their arsenal to drive down reoffending and those people going in and out of prison.”
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A lesson from ‘Tone’ about tone – over punchy political attacks may not be that effective
Andrew Gilligan
“Blair wrote in his memoirs, the ideal line of attack against an opponent was “low-key… I never made it overly harsh. I always tried to make it telling. The aim was to get the non-politician nodding. If any of these low key charges comes to be believed, it is actually fatal.”
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The general election was a disaster for the Conservatives – but things have got much worse
Patrick English
“If the Conservatives continue to essentially ignore the median voter, they may well find that they when come down from their mountaintop there’s barely an ear ready and willing to listen to them.”
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