Tag: Conservatives

Total Results: 79


When told that Macleod was too young to be eligible, Churchill shot back that he was too eligible to be too young. Credit: Reg Lancaster/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
April 7, 2021

The Tory playboy who toppled the toffs Iain Macleod was destined to be PM — and then fate caught up with him

Gavin Haynes

Wednesday
31.03

31.03

How to end anti-capitalism Turning companies into democracies will stop people hating their jobs

Dan Hitchens

Monday
22.03

22.03

The demise of ‘political blackness’ Ethnic minorities are as divided by class and politics as white people

Ralph Leonard

Friday
19.02

19.02

Labour’s real problem is Wales Forget the Red Wall — Starmer's speech ignored his party's greatest weakness

David Jeffery

Friday
18.12

18.12

How bad is it for Boris? The failures of Thatcher, Cameron and Major provide lessons for the PM

Tim Bale

Tuesday
08.12

08.12

The PM’s cabinet of puppets and placemen Some of Boris's ministers are in the wrong role; others are in the wrong profession

Peter Franklin

Monday
23.11

23.11

How Tories lost the plot over Priti Formerly serious Conservatives have been sucked into a partisan vortex in defence of the Home Secretary

Polly Mackenzie

Tuesday
27.10

27.10

Are special advisers just gossiping grifters? A new book about spads fails to justify the existence of this swollen political class

Polly Mackenzie

Tuesday
13.10

13.10

The moral vacuum at the heart of power The elites only ever look out for number one, as tell-all books by Barbara Amiel and Sasha Swire reveal

Tanya Gold

Tuesday
06.10

06.10

Is it time to end the war on welfare? The party that demonised shirkers could set a radical new agenda

James Kirkup

06.10

The Tory problem with poshness The old symbols of privilege still have the power to do the Conservatives real harm

Peter Franklin

Monday
05.10

05.10

Why the young hate the Tories The party is behind in the polls and facing a demographic catastrophe

Ed West