Tali Fraser

4 days ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

Moral courage is a quality seemingly so incredible in Westminster as feathers on an eel. Even so, when the United Kingdom’s close ally, someone we constantly and quite desperately refer to as having a ‘special relationship’ with, goes into bat against Iran – supporting Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East – and instead of proclaiming support, the UK does almost everything to disavow their actions: something has gone wrong.

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

Later today there will be a life changing, potentially life-ending, vote in the House of Commons. Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, otherwise known as assisted suicide, is getting its third and final reading. If it passes, it moves up to the Lords. This seems to have created a problem in itself. A Bill dogged by a myriad of issues, some MPs seem to want to abscond their responsibility and, despite concerns on the detail, vote it through for the Lords to sort it out later on.

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

Government, successive governments, have fallen far short when it comes to defending and protecting young, white, working-class girls, groomed and targeted for the sexual exploitation of men from Asian or Pakistani backgrounds. It has been a disgusting derogation of responsibilities – and, without swift action, government may fall short yet again. “Each investigation will call witnesses to give evidence and will require records to be submitted.

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

Almost a year since the general election and the few new Tory MPs elected in the party’s historic drubbing last July are unhappy, to put it kindly – whether it is about a lack of engagement with leadership, the old guard clocking out, or misplaced focus while the party seems to be on a death spiral.

2 weeks ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

I will admit that a bulk of this column was written for me, quite handily by Labour’s own Treasury team. After yesterday’s politically ‘ginormous’ U-turn by Rachel Reeves on winter fuel payments – returning nine million OAPs to the benefit – I thought I would take a look back at some of the economic arguments used in the House of Commons by the Chancellor and her Treasury team to defend their policy, and create a political headache over the past ten months.