Tag: Conservative Party

On Friday, Labour's euphoria from its likely victory will dissipate in hours, and the Leftist factions will emerge from the darkness and the unravelling will start, says Guy de la Bédoyère.

We should vote Conservative to keep out the Trots and their permanent revolution, says Peter Hitchens. No no no, that just ratifies the Uniparty, says Matt Goodwin. Professor James Alexander ponders the dilemma.

Labour will win because the public are rejecting the Tories' failed attempt at technocratic government, says Dr David McGrogan. But they will soon reject Labour's technocracy too. A new kind of government is needed.

The Tory election campaign is like one of those England batting collapses – paradoxically both distressing and enjoyable in equal measure, says Sean Walsh. The problem is the party has forgotten how to be conservative.

In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.

Lurking behind the election, Paul Sutton spies Tony Blair and his technocratic heirs, similarly committed to putting the 'grown-ups' in charge and smearing and smothering all dissent.

Reform leader Nigel Farage has launched his party's General Election manifesto with pledges to freeze "non-essential" immigration, leave the ECHR and scrap Net Zero.

It's been dubbed the immigration election, but it seems the Tories and Labour haven't heard. Neither party seems serious about tackling this major source of public anger, says Migration Watch's Alp Mehmet.

Nigel Farage has said he would be willing to lead a merged Reform-Conservative party after the election as a "national opposition" of the "centre Right in this country".

Fearful of expressing political views? Joanna Gray shares six tips for sharing conservative opinions without ending up in a row with intolerant friends, colleagues and associates.