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Conservative Home29 Apr 2026

Mike Newton: An innovative solution for the fiscal crisis

As gilts yields head above 5 per cent, with welfare out of control and 30 per cent of young adults economically inactive, it is time for an innovative solution to the fiscal crisis. The post Mike Newton: An innovative solution for the fiscal crisis appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
Conservative Home29 Apr 2026

Alan Mak: Conservatives understand Britain still needs face-to-face banking

A modern financial system must work for all its users, not just the majority. Older people, small business owners, people in rural, suburban and coastal communities and the digitally excluded also need access to the banking system. The post Alan Mak: Conservatives understand Britain still needs face-to-face banking appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Jonathan Guttentag: When the state mistakes a yeshivah for a school, liberty is at risk

Conservatives ought to be especially alert. We are meant to understand that society is made up not only of individuals and the state, but of families, communities, churches, synagogues, schools, clubs, traditions, and inherited forms of moral life. The post Jonathan Guttentag: When the state mistakes a yeshivah for a school, liberty is at risk appeared first on Conservative Home.

Education
Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Oliver Dean: Decline is an option – not an inevitability

If we are to take just one thing from this year's Margaret Thatcher Conference it is this: that decline, much like growth, is a choice, and Britain’s leaders must be daring if they are to return Britain to a place of prosperity. The post Oliver Dean: Decline is an option – not an inevitability appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Andrew Gilligan: Devolution in Scotland and Wales has been a failure – and nobody wants to admit it

Any attempt to devolve their powers downwards, improve the poor job they do or incentivise them to work better with others will be seen as a “Westminster attack on Scotland” or a “Westminster attack on Wales.” The post Andrew Gilligan: Devolution in Scotland and Wales has been a failure – and nobody wants to admit it appeared first on Conservative Home.

PoliticsDefence
Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Barton is back –  to do a far far better thing, in a tale of two Select Committees

Barton is a straight shooter, who could finally explain that the whole Mandelson saga was not normal, not due process, and in his professional view not a good idea from the get-go. The post Barton is back –  to do a far far better thing, in a tale of two Select Committees appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

David Willetts: Is there a neat solution for NEETs?

For many people who are not working, especially if they are young, their benefits are very low indeed. The big trend of the past decade or more has been to shift benefit spend away from young people and families towards pensioners. The post David Willetts: Is there a neat solution for NEETs?  appeared first on Conservative Home.

Defence
Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

James Crouch: Badenoch continues to build momentum, one week at a time

With each set-piece moment, Badenoch appears to be persuading more voters that she might just be the right person to lead her party after all. The post James Crouch: Badenoch continues to build momentum, one week at a time appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home28 Apr 2026

Seb James: How the Conservatives are opening the doors to the young

The party has changed, the faces have changed, and the values have never been clearer. The Conservative Party can enable anyone to achieve their potential. The post Seb James: How the Conservatives are opening the doors to the young appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

Albie Amankona: Whether on the left or right Britain has two-tier anti-racism

Many black Britons, including black Conservatives, see in her a certain detachment from the mainstream black British experience, as though her own life has been positive enough to leave her less understanding to those whose experience has been harder. The post Albie Amankona: Whether on the left or right Britain has two-tier anti-racism appeared first on Conservative Home.

Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

Tim Dier: The case for a deliverable Conservatism is being made right now – in Madrid

Low tax policies have attracted businesses and affluent residents to the Region of Madrid from high tax regions such as Catalonia, and further afield from other countries, too. The very kind of immigration we were told our points-based system would attract to the UK. The post Tim Dier: The case for a deliverable Conservatism is being made right now – in Madrid appeared first on Conservative Home.

EconomyImmigration
Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

Luke Graham: Politics has never been so hard to predict – but voters are united, in gloomy discontent

Britain is not a house divided into competing national identities. It is, rather, a country experiencing a shared loss of confidence — “one nation united under gloom”. The post Luke Graham: Politics has never been so hard to predict – but voters are united, in gloomy discontent appeared first on Conservative Home.

Politics