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Conservative Home27 Jul 2026

Ted Newson: Burnham won’t bring back British industry with more carbon taxes

Despite now owning British Steel, the country still does not make enough steel. If things go ahead as planned, our specialist manufacturers face even higher costs when importing the raw materials that they turn into planes, trains, and other machinery. The post Ted Newson: Burnham won’t bring back British industry with more carbon taxes appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home21 Jul 2026

Andrew Gilligan: Scrapping net zero is the easy part

What the country needs is a proper attempt to sit down and work out what the hierarchy of threats is, what the timescale is, and what we can do about them.   The post Andrew Gilligan: Scrapping net zero is the easy part appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home17 Jul 2026

Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests

The Conservatives gained a seat from Labour in Breckland and a seat from Reform UK in Norfolk. The Green Party gained a seat from Labour in Peterborough. The post Council by-election results from yesterday and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home17 Jul 2026

Patrick English: Badenoch’s positioning on Net Zero is brave – because the numbers are not really in her favour

It can be argued that the Net Zero positioning is less against climate change action itself, but one rooted in economics. The prospective danger is that Badenoch and the Conservatives get bogged down constantly making complex arguments and outlining such connections while other parties jump straight to the central issues. The post Patrick English: Badenoch’s positioning on Net Zero is brave – because the numbers are not really in her favour appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 Jul 2026

Kemi begins her purge of the wets

Every functioning party has red lines. Positions which are so central to its identity that abandoning them means abandoning what the party is for. For Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives, net zero and the ECHR are exactly that kind of question. They are not technical policy disputes to be settled by internal debate. The post Kemi begins her purge of the wets appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home10 Jul 2026

Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

The Conservatives gained a seat from the Lib Dems in Stratford-on-Avon and a seat from an independent in Pembrokeshire. Reform UK gained a seat from Labour in South Lanarkshire and a seat from an independent in Flintshire. The Green Party lost a seat to Labour in Camden and a seat to the Lib Dems in Lambeth. The post Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home3 Jul 2026

Greg Smith: Formula 1 is not just fuelling something we can celebrate – but lessons we can learn

The Formula 1 mindset is 'how do we achieve being better than anyone else, in a timeframe that seems impossible, in a cost cap environment and then actually do actually do it. There's a lot we Conservatives, can learn from that and that Britain can benefit from. The post Greg Smith: Formula 1 is not just fuelling something we can celebrate – but lessons we can learn appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 Jul 2026

John Redwood: Manchesterism won’t work

If Mr Burnham really wants to go for growth he will need lower taxes, cheaper energy, a roll back of net zero self harm, and more incentive for people to get a job and set up businesses. His wannabe advisers want more spending, more borrowing, more benefits, more socialism. That did not work in the 1970s and will not work now.  The post John Redwood: Manchesterism won’t work appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home30 Jun 2026

David Barton: How Conservatives can protect our historic built environment

Many of us will have observed a majestic building on our everyday journeys that has either ceased functioning or, in some cases, physically disappeared entirely from the landscape over the last decade The post David Barton: How Conservatives can protect our historic built environment appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jun 2026

Terri Bloore: The nature of the debate about tackling climate change has finally grown up – in London

The current approach to Net Zero requires greater honesty about costs, timescales and delivery. We need to build resilience, energy security, capital allocation, productivity, and long-term competitiveness. This is the way forward - not protest, fear mongering and symbolism. The post Terri Bloore: The nature of the debate about tackling climate change has finally grown up – in London appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home26 Jun 2026

Kamran Balayev: Why Conservatives should take AI seriously

Advantages unused do not remain advantages for long. The question is not whether Britain can “win” the AI race outright. It cannot. The more relevant question is whether it intends to shape the environment in which that race unfolds. The post Kamran Balayev: Why Conservatives should take AI seriously appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home25 Jun 2026

Alex Morton: Changing direction on net zero has given us a win – now it’s more change or bust

The victory is a sign that if the Conservatives have the intellectual strength to move on from the failures of 2010-2024, they can survive and even thrive. The post Alex Morton: Changing direction on net zero has given us a win – now it’s more change or bust appeared first on Conservative Home.

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