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Conservative Home8 May 2026

Richard Ekins: Come on Monsieur Besert, say what you mean – or didn’t you mean what you said?

The Secretary General’s claim was obviously that the UK should not leave the ECHR because doing so would place it in company with Russia and Belarus. This was the “consequence” of which he warned, but whatever the clarification this is a false comparison The post Richard Ekins: Come on Monsieur Besert, say what you mean – or didn’t you mean what you said? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home7 May 2026

Kamran Balayev: Why the world needs Conservative statecraft to navigate the AI age

The question is not who builds AI fastest. It is who governs it wisest. And quietly, almost without noticing, Britain has accumulated precisely the tools the moment demands. The post Kamran Balayev: Why the world needs Conservative statecraft to navigate the AI age appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home7 May 2026

Arthur Reynolds: Labour’s war on pubs is actually stifling an engine of social mobility

In their determination to squeeze every ounce of tax from pubs, Labour risks breaking an industry that offers a lifeline to thousands of young people who know the classroom isn’t for them. The post Arthur Reynolds: Labour’s war on pubs is actually stifling an engine of social mobility appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home6 May 2026

Honestly, what’s it all for? Do we really understand what local government is about?

Few people outside politics know who their councillor is and yet up and down the country there are people who stand to serve, to deliver, what are really important but dull day to day operations, and they do so for little reward. When choosing them we should at least think what it is they do. The post Honestly, what’s it all for? Do we really understand what local government is about? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home5 May 2026

Brandon To: When did Britain start siding with shoplifters?

If Britain wants to restore a culture of responsibility, it must stand with those who step forward. Because a country that fails to back its heroes will soon find it has none. The post Brandon To: When did Britain start siding with shoplifters? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home5 May 2026

Peter Franklin: How can we escape the suffocating similarity between the Conservative Party and Reform UK?

Fortune favours the brave. My hope is that the party that reaches out beyond its comfort zone — and the sterile zero-sum game with its Right-of-centre rival — will be rewarded for it. The post Peter Franklin: How can we escape the suffocating similarity between the Conservative Party and Reform UK? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home5 May 2026

Judy Terry: Confusion and disillusionment will reduce the local election turnout

Few people understand – or are even aware of - the implications of local government reorganisation. The post Judy Terry: Confusion and disillusionment will reduce the local election turnout appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why

Given the old adage that your opponents are in other parties but your real enemies are in your own, such brutal intra party warfare is the norm rather than the exception in modern British political history. The post Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

Rafe Fletcher: Britain produces great entrepreneurs but can it keep them?

Britain’s current malaise makes Singapore’s problem - the career opportunities are too good to launch a start-up - look like a nice one to have. But there is a deeper link here between political and entrepreneurial cultures. The post Rafe Fletcher: Britain produces great entrepreneurs but can it keep them? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

Sarah Ingham: Labour lawfare is breaking the covenant with the Armed Forces

Keir Starmer claims he is putting Britain on a “war footing”. Defence, however, needs more than money. It relies on Armed Forces personnel, whose morale is being undermined by the lawfare being championed by Labour.  The post Sarah Ingham: Labour lawfare is breaking the covenant with the Armed Forces appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Andrew Gilligan: Devolution in Scotland and Wales has been a failure – and nobody wants to admit it

Any attempt to devolve their powers downwards, improve the poor job they do or incentivise them to work better with others will be seen as a “Westminster attack on Scotland” or a “Westminster attack on Wales.” The post Andrew Gilligan: Devolution in Scotland and Wales has been a failure – and nobody wants to admit it appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

David Willetts: Is there a neat solution for NEETs?

For many people who are not working, especially if they are young, their benefits are very low indeed. The big trend of the past decade or more has been to shift benefit spend away from young people and families towards pensioners. The post David Willetts: Is there a neat solution for NEETs?  appeared first on Conservative Home.

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