Labour has already opened the door for the Conservatives – or someone else
Like a midwinter’s morning, the new dawn broke with a shrug. Labour’s historic landslide, a mere seven weeks old, already has a greyish pallor, opening the door for another party disciplined enough to shine brighter. That ‘Boring Keir Starmer’ was pure optics was clear to anyone with an eye on the quiet radicalism of Labour’s…
The Westminster bubble gossips as Britain falls apart
Lindsay Hoyle, Lee Anderson and Angela Rayner: none of these political dramas solve ordinary people’s problems. Lindsay Hoyle accused after breaking pledge to give SNP new Gaza ceasefire vote. The official NHS waiting list stands at 7.6 million, although the true figure is thought to be far higher. Rishi Sunak struggles to contain Islamophobia fallout…
140 million Britons: Why mass immigration will get Britain moving again.
Submission to TxP Progress Prize. Question title: ‘Britain is stuck. How can we get it moving again?’ Link to brief – https://txp.fyi/progress-prize. By Ben Cope and James Lawrence In September 2020, journalist and Substack author Matthew Yglesias published One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. In his book, Yglesias argues that America is not…
Tories should stop pandering to boomers, tax them back to work
The Conservatives must counter the narrative that they’re the party of the elderly by taking a hard line on older voters — even if that means forgoing the next election The trouble with the Conservative Party right now is they don’t realise they’re already dead. And so, they continue pandering to older voters in the…
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