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Conservative Home7 Jun 2026

Our top ten picks of the week

ConservativeHome's round-up of ten of our best articles from the preceding week. The post Our top ten picks of the week appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests

There was only one contest this week. Reform UK gained a seat from the Conservatives in Westmorland and Furness. The post Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsReform
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Jessaline Caine: One issue should unite the Right – tackling and ending the grooming gang scandal

Victims need evidence, prosecutions, proper safeguarding, transparent data and accountability for the adults who failed them. They were not symbols, slogans or props in someone else’s political war. They were children. And the adults failed them. The post Jessaline Caine: One issue should unite the Right – tackling and ending the grooming gang scandal appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsDefenceHousing
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 3 – Immigration, employment and the care sector

International recruitment has a role to play - but as a complement to domestic workforce development, not a substitute for it. The breathing space that international recruitment provided has not been used to build a domestic alternative. The window in which that can be built is narrowing. The post Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 3 – Immigration, employment and the care sector appeared first on Conservative Home.

Immigration
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Lord Ashcroft: ‘His heart’s in Manchester’ ‘It’s a stepping stone for him’ – My focus groups on the Makerfield by-election

This week we conducted focus groups in the Makerfield constituency among previous Labour voters weighing up the decision: whether to send Andy Burnham to parliament or switch to Reform UK. The post Lord Ashcroft: ‘His heart’s in Manchester’ ‘It’s a stepping stone for him’ – My focus groups on the Makerfield by-election appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsReform
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Daniel Pitt: It’s time for a common unifying culture – multiculturalism is a stale idea that didn’t work

A high-trust society requires a shared moral language that knits us together and a common unifying culture. In parts of our country, we have a low-trust society, and multiculturalism is pulling apart our social fabric; and in such a society, justice cannot exist for much longer. The post Daniel Pitt: It’s time for a common unifying culture – multiculturalism is a stale idea that didn’t work appeared first on Conservative Home.

Reform
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

‘We all know why you like Kemi’ – No, I don’t think you do, so I’ll tell you

A brand may be left unaided by her own popularity it’s true, but it certainly can’t be helped by an unpopular leader, and this week a leader is how she’s looked. The post ‘We all know why you like Kemi’ – No, I don’t think you do, so I’ll tell you appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Securing the arteries of trade and alliance

In a world where narrow waterways carry the essentials of modern living, the risks associated with chokepoints can no longer be treated as peripheral. For British households, the consequences are immediate and tangible. The post Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Securing the arteries of trade and alliance appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Matthew Elliott: What was in the King’s Speech for an unemployed young person?

If the Government were serious about the NEETs crisis, we would have seen a Bill to reform how our education system prepares young people for employment. The post Matthew Elliott: What was in the King’s Speech for an unemployed young person? appeared first on Conservative Home.

Education
Conservative Home5 Jun 2026

Sam Smith: A year of chaos, contradictions and broken promises from Reform UK in Nottinghamshire

If this first year has shown anything, it is that there is no magical “Reform way” of governing. There is only the reality of local government, where budgets must balance, services must function, roads must be repaired, and leaders must be accountable for the promises they make. The post Sam Smith: A year of chaos, contradictions and broken promises from Reform UK in Nottinghamshire appeared first on Conservative Home.

EconomyReform
Conservative Home4 Jun 2026

Lana Hempsall: The verdict on the government’s Right to Try regulations is that they need to try harder

The government’s new disability work regulations don’t go nearly far enough. Rather than picking up where Mel Stride left off and doing the hard work of getting the regulations right, they have simply grabbed the idea off the shelf, rushed it into policy, and called it done. The post Lana Hempsall: The verdict on the government’s Right to Try regulations is that they need to try harder appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics
Conservative Home4 Jun 2026

Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 2 – ‘Managing Upwards’ and dealing with the care system

People in their forties, fifties, and early sixties who thought they understood what ageing looked like but who are finding that the reality of navigating the care system on behalf of a parent is unlike anything they were prepared for. The post Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 2 – ‘Managing Upwards’ and dealing with the care system appeared first on Conservative Home.

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