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Conservative Home15 May 2026

Sarah Ingham: How the Greens do like to greenwash – even a Lamborghini

The joke, now far less funny, is that the Greens were always watermelons – eco-kindliness on the outside, Corbynite hard-left socialism within.  The post Sarah Ingham: How the Greens do like to greenwash – even a Lamborghini appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home15 May 2026

Jessaline Caine: Kemi was right to clobber the Tory source of some Worcestershire woes

If the Conservative Party becomes an anti-Reform cartel, it will not defeat Reform. It will vindicate it. Worcestershire should be treated as a warning, not a model. And on that, Kemi was right to draw the line The post Jessaline Caine: Kemi was right to clobber the Tory source of some Worcestershire woes appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home15 May 2026

John Moss: How our effective campaigning in Chingford got results

Social media ads were used effectively to build local profiles and the candidates themselves were out three or four times a week. They reported casework to existing councillors who got things done before the incumbents could respond. The post John Moss: How our effective campaigning in Chingford got results appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home14 May 2026

Liz Mair: Britain’s saggy entrepreneurship numbers should worry us all

Statistics do not lie: The UK is well behind the curve on key entrepreneurship metrics. If we want to thrive as a country, boosting business start-ups, business expansions, and creating an environment that makes survival past the five-year mark more tenable must be a national priority. The post Liz Mair: Britain’s saggy entrepreneurship numbers should worry us all appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Attieh Fard: Britain must finally confront the IRGC threat

One policy which British-Iranians have been advocating for is the freezing of their assets and making them available to the innocent Iranian civilians whom IRGC members have harmed. The government has a moral duty to consider this demand. The post Attieh Fard: Britain must finally confront the IRGC threat appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home14 May 2026

Daniel Lilley: Striking teachers are the tip of the iceberg of the disorder in England’s schools

The soaring number of exclusions in our schools reveals an education system that is in disarray. This highlights broader warning signs of an education system that has failed to get back on track even six years on from successive lockdowns. The post Daniel Lilley: Striking teachers are the tip of the iceberg of the disorder in England’s schools appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Badenoch’s challenge to Labour: do you actually want to govern?

As rumours swirl around Wes Streeting, the Government’s legislative agenda looks thinner than ever. The Tory leader offered something Westminster has seen little of lately: an argument about governing. The post Badenoch’s challenge to Labour: do you actually want to govern? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Bob Seely: Ukraine is slowly winning, and changing the rules of war – we need to be learning the lessons

Soldiers are beginning to take a back seat and instead control the robots and the systems that do the fighting. In the Ukraine war, we are witnessing the rise of the machines – and machine learning. Ground warfare will not be the same. The post Bob Seely: Ukraine is slowly winning, and changing the rules of war – we need to be learning the lessons appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Tori Peck: Young women have a right to be angry- but we can’t let them be hypnotised by the Greens

Whether you like it or not, politics has changed. It is incumbent on us to find, and fight for our place in the new politics. We may know that Zack Polanksi is a clown, and a dangerous one at that. But he’s the one laughing right now. The post Tori Peck: Young women have a right to be angry- but we can’t let them be hypnotised by the Greens  appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

James Esses: In Barnet, the Conservatives are thriving

We increased the number of councillors on Barnet Council by nine to 31, swinging Barnet Council to No Overall Control after just one Labour term. The post James Esses: In Barnet, the Conservatives are thriving appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home13 May 2026

Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk

In Matviichuk, Ukraine has found not only a witness to its suffering, but a voice articulating the stakes of a much larger struggle. For this is not merely a war over territory. It is, as she sees it, a defining contest between law and power, between dignity and domination. The post Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 May 2026

Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’

Tony Blair made ‘education, education, education’ the centrepiece of New Labour’s message and was duly rewarded. Thirty years later, the Welsh Tories missed a signal opportunity to do the same - and Welsh youngsters may suffer as a result. The post Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’ appeared first on Conservative Home.

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