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Conservative Home28 May 2026

Peter Crossen: School fines are a misguided method to boost pupil attendance

Holiday prices during school breaks are significantly higher, often double or triple the cost of the exact same trip just weeks earlier. The post Peter Crossen: School fines are a misguided method to boost pupil attendance appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home27 May 2026

Ahmed Imtiaz: Britain needs a modern Sovereign Wealth fund

A sovereign wealth fund properly designed, professionally run, and open to public participation could be one of the most important economic reforms of the next decade. It is not too late for Britain to start thinking generationally again but do we have the ambition to do so. The post Ahmed Imtiaz: Britain needs a modern Sovereign Wealth fund appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home27 May 2026

Matthew Jeffery: The Long Read – Brexit Didn’t Fail. We Failed Brexit

We took back control and then ran away from it. Before declaring Brexit a failure, perhaps we should first have the courage to properly attempt it. Not half-implement it. Not dilute it. Not spend a decade trapped between old systems and new ambitions.  The post Matthew Jeffery: The Long Read – Brexit Didn’t Fail. We Failed Brexit appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home27 May 2026

Rafe Fletcher: Civic nationalism needs civic pragmatism

Britain cannot survive on so-called muscular values if external factors are constantly in flux. Like Singapore, Britain needs a vision of what it looks like to decide what it stands for. The post Rafe Fletcher: Civic nationalism needs civic pragmatism appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home27 May 2026

Bob Seely: Net Zero is economic suicide – and it is now endangering our national security

What began life as, at best, a noble objective and at worst, a piece of virtue signalling with little thought as to the eventual cost, has not only become a destroyer of jobs and industry, but it's now also directly impacting on our foreign and defence policy The post Bob Seely: Net Zero is economic suicide – and it is now endangering our national security appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home27 May 2026

It really was nice, for a week – the quiet

Politics viewed from afar has become horribly loud. Blocking it all out, gives you an idea of how most people see politics. It pops in and out their consciousness because it is not their main priority, or topic of conversation. They don’t ignore it, but they aren’t awash with it. The post It really was nice, for a week – the quiet appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics
Conservative Home27 May 2026

Katie Lam: Price controls set by Governments have a very long and dismal history of failure

If the Government actually wanted to bring down prices, they could start with energy prices by opening up drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. They could cut back on some of the absurd regulations on businesses and roll back the disastrous rise in National Insurance for employers. The post Katie Lam: Price controls set by Governments have a very long and dismal history of failure appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home27 May 2026

Ranj Alaaldin: Why Kemi should lead the Tories into the next two elections

The surest way to lose the electorate is to repeat the mistake of believing that a different face at the despatch box will save the party. Let Kemi finish the job of rebuilding and rehabilitating the party, and to give voters a reason to come home. The post Ranj Alaaldin: Why Kemi should lead the Tories into the next two elections appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsHousing
Conservative Home27 May 2026

Clark Vasey: Why winning a London council seat reinforces my belief in blue collar Conservatism

Ours was a relentlessly anti-Labour campaign. Even when our canvassing results showed us losing votes to Reform, we did not shift our focus from Labour. We didn’t attack Reform or change our leaflets to make them the threat in the hope of picking up voters from elsewhere. The post Clark Vasey: Why winning a London council seat reinforces my belief in blue collar Conservatism appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home26 May 2026

Tolga Inanc: Winning in a multiparty system is possible for the Conservatives it just takes a shift in mindset

Conservatives must do more than energise loyalists: They must frame elections as meaningful choices between likely outcomes in each seat, and why Conservative policies matter. If we do we can win back votes from all directions, including previous non-voters. The post Tolga Inanc: Winning in a multiparty system is possible for the Conservatives it just takes a shift in mindset appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics
Conservative Home26 May 2026

Lord Ashcroft: “It would be very funny if he didn’t get in” – My latest focus groups

Conversations took place took place in Barking, where we heard from Labour voters tempted by Reform; Lewisham, with Labour voters tempted by the Greens; and Newbury and Carshalton, where we heard from Lib Dem voters who switched from the Conservatives in 2024. The post Lord Ashcroft: “It would be very funny if he didn’t get in” – My latest focus groups appeared first on Conservative Home.

Environment
Conservative Home26 May 2026

Luke Graham: The threat to the Union is bigger after the recent elections and we need positive ways to counter it

No one should be bullied into having to take the nationalist lines of being Welsh or Scottish or else. People can be proud of being Scottish and British, Welsh, and British, Northern Irish and British, English, and British and whatever combination their family happens to be. The post Luke Graham: The threat to the Union is bigger after the recent elections and we need positive ways to counter it appeared first on Conservative Home.

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