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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Rafe Fletcher: Britain needs muscular citizenship

Britain needs a more muscular vision of identity rooted in commitment. Pride cannot reside only in the vestiges of cultural triumphs abroad. It must inspire loyalty at home too.  The post Rafe Fletcher: Britain needs muscular citizenship appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026

Starmer is no Churchill, says Trump as tensions rise | Reeves raid pushes taxes to record high | Net zero is the answer to Middle East energy crisis, says Business Secretary The post Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

EconomyEnvironment
Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence

Churchill fought a war having argued for years that Britain was economically and militarily unprepared.  Starmer is trying not to fight a war arguing via his Chancellor that never before has so much been promised for defence. For so little return when it matters, it seems. The post The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Katie Lam: We can make Keir Starmer U-turn yet again, but we need your help

Any public inquiry must conduct itself according to its ‘terms of reference’. Unfortunately, the draft terms of reference produced by the Government for the grooming gangs inquiry are fatally flawed. The post Katie Lam: We can make Keir Starmer U-turn yet again, but we need your help appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas

Realism requires backbone. This government has none. Winter fuel payments: U-turn. Welfare reform: U-turn. The two-child benefit cap: U-turn. Farm taxes, family business taxes, pubs - all U-turns. Whenever pressure mounts, this government folds. The post Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Deri Hughes: International law won’t keep us safe

The greater danger likely lies in unthinking adoration of the totems of whatever qualifies as “international law”. That tendency is obviously very strong in the Starmer government, starting with the man himself. The post Deri Hughes: International law won’t keep us safe appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Matthew Jeffery: Margaret Thatcher would never have joined Reform UK

Thatcherism was never the politics of protest. It was the politics of government, grounded in ideas strong enough not only to win power, but to sustain it once won. The post Matthew Jeffery: Margaret Thatcher would never have joined Reform UK appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsReform
Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Opposition and think-tank reactions to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement

Britain’s unemployment rate is forecast to climb to its highest level since the pandemic, according to the OBR, the budget watchdog, with their growth forecast cut for the coming year to just 1.1 per cent. The post Opposition and think-tank reactions to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride responds to the Spring Statement

Mel Stride likens Rachel Reeves' plan to 'surrender' in response to the Chancellor's Spring Statement The post Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride responds to the Spring Statement appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Charlotte Salomon: The Conservatives are right to defend childhood online and draw the line at 16

Children do not just use social media platforms. They are manipulated to generate value for them. A serious country protects its children. Not just in the physical world, but in the digital one too. The post Charlotte Salomon: The Conservatives are right to defend childhood online and draw the line at 16 appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Andrew Gilligan: Northern Powerhouse Rail won’t help the North, or power better transport. The Tories have got this wrong

Maybe we’re worried that opposing NPR would look anti-North. But though it's understandably beloved of the profit-scenting construction lobby, and the Labour mayors it has captured – it is in fact a huge obstacle to giving the North the better transport it badly needs. The post Andrew Gilligan: Northern Powerhouse Rail won’t help the North, or power better transport. The Tories have got this wrong appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home3 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Tuesday 3rd March 2026

Trump says ‘I’m very disappointed in Starmer' over Iran | Starmer refuses to retaliate for Iran’s drone blitz on RAF base in Cyprus | US embassy attacked by suspected Iranian drones | Badenoch to ban public sector using diversity quotas when hiring The post Newslinks for Tuesday 3rd March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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