Henry Hill

6 days ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

“I think the kind of ten year trend inside the Conservative movement of trying to copy the Brexit Party or the UKIP Party, or now the Reform Party, has not really worked.”So spake George Osborne to Andrew Marr on LBC yesterday. There’s nothing remarkable – or perhaps more accurately, nothing unusual – about the sentiment. It is standard Tory-left boilerplate. If only we hadn’t pandered to Nigel Farage, all would be well.

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

HL Mencken once observed that: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”One is put in mind of it by the latest polling from More in Common which shows that the return of Boris Johnson as leader would apparently springboard the Conservatives back into the lead. Only call our Arthur back from beneath Avalon and Reform UK would drop six points, whilst the Tory share would rise by five.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Henry Hill

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

One thing we learned from this week’s local elections is that the nation is still stuck firmly in the first stage of grief. Everywhere you look, ‘DEN GAIN from DEN’ is the result. Denial reigns. Those who keep tabs on Luke Tryl’s abyss-gazing focus groups might be tempted to hope that we’d progressed at least to anger, or perhaps even depression – just one stop from acceptance!But the actual politics tells its own story.

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Henry Hill

Here’s an interesting statement from The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change, the Tony Blair Institute’s interesting new report on Net Zero:“[B]ecause of the levels of growth and development, present policy solutions are inadequate and, worse, are distorting the debate into a quest for a climate platform that is unrealistic and therefore unworkable. “So, the movement now needs a public mandate, attainable only through a shift from protest to pragmatic policy.