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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.

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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.

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Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

Andrew Bowie: The unionist vote must stick together in Scotland

Reform are not a unionist party. You are not a unionist party if you allow separatists to stand for election in your name. You are not a unionist party if you are relaxed about another referendum on ripping our great nation apart. The post Andrew Bowie: The unionist vote must stick together in Scotland appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home24 Apr 2026

Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

Reform UK gained a seat from Labour in Salford. The post Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home24 Apr 2026

Tim Sansom: Running for power. Finding the mental, physical or political mindset to navigate parliamentary life

Tim Sansom works for Dr Luke Evans MP as a Senior Parliamentary Researcher and is a committed runner and advocate for running. Let me take you back to Gunnersbury Park on 22 July 2017. I had heard that London could be a lonely and tiring city if you could not find a niche or tribe […] The post Tim Sansom: Running for power. Finding the mental, physical or political mindset to navigate parliamentary life appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home24 Apr 2026

Patrick English: YouGov data shows Reform holding back Conservative recovery in London

Frustrating news for the Conservatives, our model does not currently project the party to be winning back control of either Westminster or Wandsworth. These are, naturally, the top two Borough targets for a Conservative party looking to show they can win again. The post Patrick English: YouGov data shows Reform holding back Conservative recovery in London appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home24 Apr 2026

When it really is a marathon not a sprint don’t be put off by the half-time commentary

In two years of watching this political race I’ve seen an unpromising start and a long uphill climb coming ahead, but I’m still confident that not only are the Tories not ‘out of the race’ they are contending. The post When it really is a marathon not a sprint don’t be put off by the half-time commentary appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home23 Apr 2026

Austen Morgan: We now know more than we did about the Mandelson affair – so what happens next?

Robbins could insist on justifying civil service discretion in the face of ministerial rights to know?  Starmer will have diminishing political support.  Robbins, the support of the former cabinet secretaries and other mandarins. Public opinion, unimpressed with the former, may warm to the latter. The post Austen Morgan: We now know more than we did about the Mandelson affair – so what happens next? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home23 Apr 2026

Emma Revell: Growth is the most over-used and under-delivered word in modern politics

Since the global financial crisis, growth has been held up as the solution to all our problems: the answer to stagnant wages, creaking public services, and a rising cost of living. And it would be, if we had done any of the things necessary to allow it to happen. The post Emma Revell: Growth is the most over-used and under-delivered word in modern politics appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home23 Apr 2026

The Starmer question

Behind the calls for his resignation lies a quieter hope for some Tories that Sir Keir Starmer limps on, dragging Labour down with him. The post The Starmer question appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home23 Apr 2026

John Oxley: My vote in the local elections won’t count, but it could be so different

Our electoral system means that perhaps two-thirds of the electorate could find themselves shut out, and there is no opposition to speak of. The post John Oxley: My vote in the local elections won’t count, but it could be so different appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home21 Apr 2026

Lord Ashcroft: “Labour were always for the working people. Now it’s the non-working people”: my latest focus groups

My last round of focus groups before the May elections took place in Leeds, where we heard from former Tories who had switched to Labour or Reform, and longer-standing Labour voters considering their options; and Bridgend, where Welsh Labour voters pondered the Senedd elections. The post Lord Ashcroft: “Labour were always for the working people. Now it’s the non-working people”: my latest focus groups appeared first on Conservative Home.

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