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Iain Duncan Smith: Tough community sentences are not about being ‘soft’ on criminals

2 days ago | conservativehome.com | Iain Duncan Smith

Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP is a former leader of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice. No crime feels “minor” when you are the victim of it. Whether you are a small business being targeted by shoplifters or living in a neighbourhood blighted by anti-social behaviour, these crimes can feel anything but “minor”.
What would Osborne do?

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.
The Conservative party's current brief and the political mysteries of 'time'

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Giles Dilnot

Kemi Badenoch has an enemy she cannot control and it’s potentially working against her. Time as a concept is defined as ‘the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future’. It is as, we all know, measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. Political time has varied speeds and units. Things happen fast, or action is too slow.
Ewan Cameron: The UK could have a competitive advantage if it weren’t for Miliband’s madness

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Ewan Cameron

Growth is a lower priority than stamping out LNG from our energy mix, for this Government. The essence of political office is to decide. After ten months of Labour, we have a growing list of decisions this Government has made that are not in the national interest.
All about Boris | Conservative Home

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.
Daniel Hannan: Forget for a moment the many hurdles around a deal with Reform and focus on the logic and the maths

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Daniel Hannan

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020 and is now President of the Institute for Free Trade. Rome’s entire future, so the story goes, was inscribed in nine prophetic books. The Cumaean Sibyl offered to sell them to the young city, but Tarquin, last of Rome’s seven kings, thought her price exorbitant, and refused. She went away, burned three of them, and came back offering the remaining six at the same price.
Tory MPs are trying to introduce national service, again

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Tali Fraser

This week marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Veterans will march in military procession, tales of the heroism of those who served will be told, and over four days of celebrations we will all be reminded of the fortitude, sacrifice and courage of the wartime generation who gave so much.
Here should endeth the lessons. Certainty and inevitability are the refuge of potentially false prophets

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Giles Dilnot

‘Listening’ and ‘learning lessons’. In over a quarter of a century of reporting on, or being part of, UK politics, this response-to-bad-results #101 is rather unimaginative if safe. It’s staled by whether they mean it. They often don’t but that’s part of the dance. Odd then that Keir Starmer in a tweet where he said, “I get it” and then demonstrated how much he really didn’t ‘get it’ thinks the lesson is ‘further and faster’.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeeeeeeee...

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.
Not much good a lot of bad and some ugly realities - of a grim night for the Conservatives

1 week ago | conservativehome.com | Giles Dilnot

Well, it was bad, really bad and we’re not done yet. But then it was always going to be bad. The Conservatives doing badly at these local elections was probably baked into party thinking before Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. The Boris vaccine bounce delivered, in 2021, a unexpectedly high water mark result, and that was never going to be repeated, or even close, this time round. So these results being bad for the Tories is not the news today. It’s what it tells us that is the focus.