MP Andrew Bridgen has been suspended from sitting as a Conservative MP pending a "formal investigation" after causing "great offence" with remarks criticising the Covid vaccines.
Things are going to get worse before they get better. Truss should call an election, lose, and then blame the country's economic problems on Labour. If she doesn't, the Tories could be out of power for a generation.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the self-destruction of the Conservative Party, Graham Norton's woke confusion and Jeremy Hunt’s remarkable comeback.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are the likely honourees in Boris's Lavender List, the runners and riders in the Tory leadership contest and the stinking weasel poo that is Thor: Love and Thunder.
Former Health Secretary Sajid Javid was a champion of vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and pushed for a Christmas lockdown last winter. He must not become Prime Minister.
Kemi Badenoch has entered the Tory leadership race, which is exciting news. She's a smart, hard-working, courageous and properly conservative politician who deserves to be much more widely known by the general public.
Boris Johnson is facing political pressure on all sides to re-examine the U.K.'s military spending levels as ex-minister Lord Frost led Tory demands for an increase in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey, about the Conservatives Party's decline.
by Dr. James Alexander The Covid crisis is of great political significance. It may in fact mark the end of the Conservative Party. The history of conservatism is usually told in terms of politicians – from Peel, Disraeli and Salisbury through Churchill to Thatcher, Major, Cameron, May and Johnson; or in terms of shifts in economic policy: from protection to free trade in the mid-19th century, from free trade to tariff reform in the early 20th century, from Keynesian consensus to monetarism in the late 20th century; or in terms of thinkers like Burke, Oakeshott, Scruton etc. But I want to propose something a bit different, not only for the sake of history itself, but in order to understand the contemporary crisis of the Conservative Party. The history of conservatism, when seen from sufficient distance, falls into four, perhaps now five, stages. Conservatism was named in the 1830s for the politics of Peel. But it was not a happy politics. It was a reactionary, even late, politics, a politics of a belated and reluctant concession to the events of 1828 to 1832 in which the old order of church and state and of mixed government (King, Lords and Commons) was replaced by the English version of a revolutionary, enlightened order in which the sorts of ideas which had been espoused ...
Reports suggest that some criticism of the Government on vaccine passports is coming from within cabinet, as the number of Tory MPs expected to vote against the PM’s plans has upped slightly to more than 50.
