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.
The Government must scrap its "outrageous proposal" to introduce vaccine passports or it will risk splitting the Conservative Party "irretrievably", warns Steve Baker, the Deputy Chairman of the Covid Recovery Group.
