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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Daniel Lilley: Striking teachers are the tip of the iceberg of the disorder in England’s schools

The soaring number of exclusions in our schools reveals an education system that is in disarray. This highlights broader warning signs of an education system that has failed to get back on track even six years on from successive lockdowns. The post Daniel Lilley: Striking teachers are the tip of the iceberg of the disorder in England’s schools appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home14 May 2026

Bob Seely: Ukraine is slowly winning, and changing the rules of war – we need to be learning the lessons

Soldiers are beginning to take a back seat and instead control the robots and the systems that do the fighting. In the Ukraine war, we are witnessing the rise of the machines – and machine learning. Ground warfare will not be the same. The post Bob Seely: Ukraine is slowly winning, and changing the rules of war – we need to be learning the lessons appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 May 2026

Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk

In Matviichuk, Ukraine has found not only a witness to its suffering, but a voice articulating the stakes of a much larger struggle. For this is not merely a war over territory. It is, as she sees it, a defining contest between law and power, between dignity and domination. The post Lord Ashcroft: ‘We’re not Victims – We’re Fighters’ – my interview with Ukrainian Nobel prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 May 2026

Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’

Tony Blair made ‘education, education, education’ the centrepiece of New Labour’s message and was duly rewarded. Thirty years later, the Welsh Tories missed a signal opportunity to do the same - and Welsh youngsters may suffer as a result. The post Richard Kelly: The Tory campaign in Wales would have been more effective had it focused on ‘addysg, addysg, addysg’ appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home12 May 2026

Lord Ashcroft: “This war will not end with a deal” – Ukraine’s former chief diplomat Dmytro Kuleba

Lord Ashcroft sits down with one of Ukraine’s most prominent voices – its former foreign minister and now a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, Dmytro Kuleba – to discuss the trajectory of the war, the limits of diplomacy, and what lies ahead.  The post Lord Ashcroft: “This war will not end with a deal” – Ukraine’s former chief diplomat Dmytro Kuleba appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home12 May 2026

Maurisa Coleman: Kemi has started the renewal now local Conservatives need to lace up their boots

Too many local associations still behave as though visibility during election season is enough. Too many councillors still rely on outdated political assumptions in an environment that no longer rewards complacency. And too many local structures continue to confuse survival with renewal. The post Maurisa Coleman: Kemi has started the renewal now local Conservatives need to lace up their boots appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home12 May 2026

Andrew Griffith: Forget the Starmer-drama, Britain is slipping towards economic oblivion

Over the next few years things are only likely to get worse.  Labour will continue to borrow huge sums, because they don’t understand that someone has to be willing to buy all the debt they issue.  Like in the 1970s, the markets will demand ever more in return for that borrowing.  The post Andrew Griffith: Forget the Starmer-drama, Britain is slipping towards economic oblivion appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home11 May 2026

Thomas Heald: Devolution has not failed in Scotland – yet

The Conservatives achieved their greatest modern success when we looked optimistic, competent and outward-looking: patriotic without sounding angry, serious without sounding technocratic, conservative without appearing reactionary. The post Thomas Heald: Devolution has not failed in Scotland – yet appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home11 May 2026

Starmer’s speech will sound old, familiar and stale – whatever’s next the Tories must avoid that fate and keep climbing

The Tories are still staring up a mountain with a long hard slog to go, and could still find another grinning and laughing at them from above when they get closer to the top, but the point is they aren’t going backwards. The path they choose next is the vital bit. The post Starmer’s speech will sound old, familiar and stale – whatever’s next the Tories must avoid that fate and keep climbing appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home8 May 2026

Mark Littlewood: If we are serious about boosting growth we are going to have to revisit something we’ve shied away from

The parlous performance of our economy and the appalling state of our public finances means we will have to look again at the economic fundamentals that underlay the 'mini-budget. Awkward, yes, but the principles really are a way out of the fiscal hole we have dug for ourselves. The post Mark Littlewood: If we are serious about boosting growth we are going to have to revisit something we’ve shied away from appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home8 May 2026

Richard Ekins: Come on Monsieur Besert, say what you mean – or didn’t you mean what you said?

The Secretary General’s claim was obviously that the UK should not leave the ECHR because doing so would place it in company with Russia and Belarus. This was the “consequence” of which he warned, but whatever the clarification this is a false comparison The post Richard Ekins: Come on Monsieur Besert, say what you mean – or didn’t you mean what you said? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home7 May 2026

Kamran Balayev: Why the world needs Conservative statecraft to navigate the AI age

The question is not who builds AI fastest. It is who governs it wisest. And quietly, almost without noticing, Britain has accumulated precisely the tools the moment demands. The post Kamran Balayev: Why the world needs Conservative statecraft to navigate the AI age appeared first on Conservative Home.

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