Henry Hill
“Real democracy is the regular and granular power to respond to judgements by updating the body of law to which the judges refer on an ongoing basis. Happily, we have that in Parliament.”
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Harry Phibbs
“The state seeking to hand out subsidies to counter the harm it has done will only compound the fiscal and demographic calamity we face. It would also be morally flawed.”
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One-sided infatuation with the dream of a pact with Reform is doing our party serious harm
John Oxley
“Yet if their voters don’t like the Tories and don’t switch to them when it matters (as everything now suggests), this idea doesn’t work for either party.”
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Assisted suicide makes plain the urgent need for an urgent overhaul of Private Members’ Bills
Miriam Cates
“the lightweight nature of the PMB process has, on a number of occasions, been hijacked to introduce radical legal change with little scrutiny.”
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The outrageous electoral pact that could save the Conservative Party — and it’s not with Reform
Peter Franklin
“The blue and yellows have teamed up before and even if the idea of doing so again is utterly outrageous to both sides now, I’m suggesting that it could become less so the closer that Farage gets to power.”
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The rise of “baby deserts” – why we need all-party support to promote higher birth rates
Lord Ashcroft
“The UK fertility and birth rate have dropped to an all-time low of just 1.44 children per woman being born. That is a staggering 31 per cent below the bare minimum for maintaining the population.”
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Leicester Conservatives delivered our only gain last July – so why is CCHQ ignoring us?
Vrushika Valand
“Right now, it doesn’t feel like we’re learning lessons because CCHQ hasn’t yet built the structures to learn from our failure. That must change.”
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We should scrap anti-supply measures to increase brownfield development
Anthony Breach
“If not, they need to accept the only way to develop a coherent housing policy is with big releases of green belt land for new homes – there is no alternative.”
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In Wales, a panicking Senedd group is suspending Tory critics like me
Huw Davies
“Millar’s dictatorial handling of the issue of devolution is alienating the very few voters we have left, the overwhelming majority of whom support abolishing the Senedd.”
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Rayner bets the house on tackling land-banking. Alas, it is a discredited conspiracy theory
Henry Hill
“What a gift this will be to any council which wants to block housebuilding, which is most of them.”
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