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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Harry Richer: Tolerance in Britain is a conversation we cannot keep avoiding

Comfortable conversations rarely fix anything, and Britain has been avoiding this uncomfortable conversation for twenty-plus years while some who have benefitted from our current version of tolerance have started to decide that it no longer applies to them. The post Harry Richer: Tolerance in Britain is a conversation we cannot keep avoiding appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Reva Gudi: I’m a GP – this is what Burnham should do to fix social care instead

I did not arrive at this from a Treasury spreadsheet, but from decades of looking after the elderly in their homes, in care homes, in conversations with families trying to do right by the people they love. The post Reva Gudi: I’m a GP – this is what Burnham should do to fix social care instead appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Burnham prefers pious aspiration to serious reform

The new PM calls for more apprenticeships, but shows no sign of lifting the burdens on the businesses which might provide them. The post Burnham prefers pious aspiration to serious reform appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home28 Jul 2026

Derek Wann: Taking responsibility – a year of Conservative leadership in Angus

Housing quickly became one of our defining priorities. Across Scotland, too many families struggle to find an affordable home, while too many young people feel they have little choice but to leave the communities where they grew up. The post Derek Wann: Taking responsibility – a year of Conservative leadership in Angus appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home24 Jul 2026

Jamie Mulhall: Britain built the jet engine. Now let’s build the world’s nuclear battery

Modern Britain too often hesitates. We consult, delay and postpone while other countries simply build. The Victorians thought differently. They built railways, docks, bridges and telegraph networks because they understood that infrastructure creates prosperity. The post Jamie Mulhall: Britain built the jet engine. Now let’s build the world’s nuclear battery appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home24 Jul 2026

Hiten Ganatra: The mortgage market is paying the price for Westminster’s instability

The lesson of the past decade could not be clearer, as political stability and fiscal credibility are not optional luxuries for governments. They are the foundations on which the mortgage market, and with it the financial security of millions of British households, depends. The post Hiten Ganatra: The mortgage market is paying the price for Westminster’s instability appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home22 Jul 2026

Alan Mak: Kemi’s policies will reverse Labour’s damage to the economy

Britain needs a different course: economic policy that rewards work, welcomes investment and helps high-growth firms scale at home rather than overseas. Labour’s legacy is a warning and a call to action for us Conservatives. The post Alan Mak: Kemi’s policies will reverse Labour’s damage to the economy appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh

If Andy Burnham and Louise Haigh really do think Britain's current problems started because of the Thatcher years, I'm very much afraid he will try to borrow solutions from the past which will not tackle our profound and monumental challenges as a country but make our future a darned sight worse.  The post ‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

David Barton: Alternative ways to save heritage buildings

The Conservatives can make a crucial difference to their communities in this chapter by actively, positively and constructively engaging with property owners to prevent sales to less sympathetic third parties. The post David Barton: Alternative ways to save heritage buildings appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home16 Jul 2026

Nikita Malik: Expanding free childcare to parents on benefits would be a costly mistake

Parents who go out to work instil values of discipline, routine, and aspiration in their children. Expanding free childcare provision to those who have never worked, and may never plan to, would pile more pressure on the families already contributing and trying to hold it all together. The post Nikita Malik: Expanding free childcare to parents on benefits would be a costly mistake appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home16 Jul 2026

John Oxley: The Conservatives need to find their authenticity

To win, we need to pick up seats across different places with different demographics. Policy will do some of the work on this, but we also need to find people who can cultivate that sort of support. Candidates who understand not just what their constituency looks like, but what the Conservative Party is actually standing for within it The post John Oxley: The Conservatives need to find their authenticity appeared first on Conservative Home.

Housing
Conservative Home15 Jul 2026

Labour say there’s a civil war with the ‘wets’ raging in the Conservative party. I can’t find one

What we are seeing is a consistency of position being forged that is neither wet nor dry, left or right, but 'Conservative' as defined by the current leadership. But I'm not expecting this so called purge to produce mass casualties, and it's fundamentals aren't even new. The post Labour say there’s a civil war with the ‘wets’ raging in the Conservative party. I can’t find one appeared first on Conservative Home.

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