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Conservative Home4 May 2026

Neil Graham: Victory in Northumberland

I focused on facts and tangible results reminding local residents how far we had come, I kept the tone of the messages positive and uplifting. The post Neil Graham: Victory in Northumberland appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home3 May 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 Home1 May 2026

Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests

Just one result this week. Reform UK gained a seat from the Conservatives in Malvern Hills. The post Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

Joey Gwinn: Where Reform wins, their own voters lose the most

Having broken nearly all his promises, Farage has given many supporters the polar opposite of what they voted for. The post Joey Gwinn: Where Reform wins, their own voters lose the most appeared first on Conservative Home.

Reform
Conservative Home1 May 2026

Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why

Given the old adage that your opponents are in other parties but your real enemies are in your own, such brutal intra party warfare is the norm rather than the exception in modern British political history. The post Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsDefence
Conservative Home1 May 2026

Rafe Fletcher: Britain produces great entrepreneurs but can it keep them?

Britain’s current malaise makes Singapore’s problem - the career opportunities are too good to launch a start-up - look like a nice one to have. But there is a deeper link here between political and entrepreneurial cultures. The post Rafe Fletcher: Britain produces great entrepreneurs but can it keep them? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

I was a Jew in denial – until the Green Party made me confront a grim truth about Britain’s antisemitism

I almost want to say thank you to the Green Party, for being the thing that finally pulls my head out from the sand, peels my eyelids open, and forces me to confront what a state British Jews find ourselves in. It is such a deeply sad one that I have desperately not wanted to acknowledge it, and I feel ashamed about that – it doesn’t seem to be an option anymore, and I hope for politicians who could do something about this, they feel similarly. The post I was a Jew in denial – until the Green Pa

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Conservative Home1 May 2026

Sarah Ingham: Labour lawfare is breaking the covenant with the Armed Forces

Keir Starmer claims he is putting Britain on a “war footing”. Defence, however, needs more than money. It relies on Armed Forces personnel, whose morale is being undermined by the lawfare being championed by Labour.  The post Sarah Ingham: Labour lawfare is breaking the covenant with the Armed Forces appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home1 May 2026

Gareth Davies: Why all eyes should be on Wales this May?

This election, then, will not simply decide who governs Wales, but whether the desire for change translates into meaningful improvement or merely a continuation of the same political culture under a different, more nationalist, banner. The post Gareth Davies: Why all eyes should be on Wales this May? appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsHousing
Conservative Home1 May 2026

Rupert Matthews: What will replace Police and Crime Commissioners?

We will have a national police force and a number of regional police forces. Who will hold governance over them, and raise taxes to pay for them? The Labour Government has not yet said. The post Rupert Matthews: What will replace Police and Crime Commissioners? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home30 Apr 2026

Fleur Butler: Why conservatives must sell resilience, not welfare

The message is: don’t let the state be your only safety net, “build your own”.  It is not an attack on single mothers or a call to dismantle welfare. Life goes wrong in ways the lucky often cannot imagine. The state should always be there for those who need it. But we must be honest about what it can and cannot do.  The post Fleur Butler: Why conservatives must sell resilience, not welfare appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home30 Apr 2026

Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet

Baldwin’s actions directly disprove the notion that a substantial reformatting of ideas or policies must occur on a timeline approaching years. Just because the next election is remote, albeit nearly two years have elapsed already, should not engender a relative passivity nor timidity around key decisions. The post Xander West: Baldwin’s resurgence and the first shadow cabinet appeared first on Conservative Home.

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