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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Badenoch launches the Conservative Local Election campaign

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch delivers her keynote address at the official launch of the 2026 Local Election campaign in Westminster. The post Badenoch launches the Conservative Local Election campaign appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics
Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Edward Davies: Solving the birth rate crisis is a moral and fiscal imperative

The CSJ’s analysis shows that on current population estimates children in school today could face working until their mid-70s before receiving a state pension. The post Edward Davies: Solving the birth rate crisis is a moral and fiscal imperative appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

How the Tories are planning a strategic defence review in opposition

The shadow defence secretary refers to "the end of dependency", both on other countries for defence and the public on the state – with a choice to direct spending away from welfare and into defence. The post How the Tories are planning a strategic defence review in opposition appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Bob Seely: What’s wrong with the Foreign Office – and how to put it right

Dr Robert Seely MBE is author of ‘The New Total War’, ConservativeHome’s foreign affairs columnist and a former Conservative MP.  As the worn cliché had it, within living memory the British civil service was a Rolls-Royce machine—so smooth and effective was its operation. The Foreign Office (currently called the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO), […] The post Bob Seely: What’s wrong with the Foreign Office – and how to put it right appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

John Cooper: Why Britain must resist a new blasphemy law

Incredibly, Labour’s ludicrously named Social Cohesion Action Plan is flirting with a blasphemy law with its imprecise ‘anti-Muslim hate’ clause. The post John Cooper: Why Britain must resist a new blasphemy law appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Elizabeth Campbell: The Government’s sly plans for a Mansion Tax must be vigorously resisted

Here in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 per cent of homes will be liable for this charge, many of them modest flats, far from so-called mansions. Close to a quarter of our residents will now face bills of up to £7,000 a year. The post Elizabeth Campbell: The Government’s sly plans for a Mansion Tax must be vigorously resisted appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Callum Murphy: Standing for election in Canary Wharf is a window on what the Conservatives must do to win back young professionals

The task for the Conservative Party is not to reinvent itself entirely. It is to reconnect those enduring principles with the realities of modern life in Britain’s cities. The post Callum Murphy: Standing for election in Canary Wharf is a window on what the Conservatives must do to win back young professionals appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics
Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

PMQs: Badenoch gets no answer as to whether the PM ever spoke to Mandelson before appointing him

The Prime Minister dodged questions about his handling of Mandelson to claim the Conservative leader had wanted to go to war. The Speaker pointed out that it was not Opposition Question Time. The post PMQs: Badenoch gets no answer as to whether the PM ever spoke to Mandelson before appointing him appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

James Elles: Defending the continent of Europe is a common responsibility

Focussed on domestic issues, the November budget made no reference as to how the 5 per cent NATO defence spending target will be met. The UK Government is doing too little to prepare the British people for the security challenges ahead. The post James Elles: Defending the continent of Europe is a common responsibility appeared first on Conservative Home.

EconomyDefence
Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Ben Fletcher: The abolition of Stamp Duty is a great first step, but for further tax reform lets talk VAT

Reforming VAT in a first Conservative budget would create the basis for accelerated economic growth and be consistent with the reforming approach shown by the best of our predecessors. The post Ben Fletcher: The abolition of Stamp Duty is a great first step, but for further tax reform lets talk VAT appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Pastries and coffee are where we seem to have got to with the normalisation of anything anti-jewish

Today, arguing the rights and wrongs of the Middle East’s problems, especially if those rights are Palestinian and the wrongs anybody with the remotest connection to a being jewish, is made both virtuous and acceptable in a newspaper and our wider public discourse. The post Pastries and coffee are where we seem to have got to with the normalisation of anything anti-jewish appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Katie Lam: Britain’s regulators care more about quotas than profits

It is absurd that our financial regulator cares more about whether you have enough women on your board than if you actually make any money. The post Katie Lam: Britain’s regulators care more about quotas than profits appeared first on Conservative Home.